Jazz Articles about Andrew Cyrille

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Andrew Cyrille - Armando Battiston: The Contact

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 4, 2007

Armando Battiston è autore e polistrumentista che spazia da opere colte di taglio contemporaneo a musiche per teatro ed altri eventi artistici, da performance con poeti e scultori a lavori jazzistici, dove evidenzia la sua natura poliedrica, capace di coniugare le tradizioni del pianismo d'anteguerra con quello moderno e d'avanguardia. Il duo col magistrale percussionista Andrew Cyrille è uno dei suoi progetti attuali (un altro è il quintetto Echos comprendente Hamid Drake e William Parker) ed è particolarmente interessante. La ...

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Andrew Cyrille with Greg Osby: Low Blue Flame

by Brandt Reiter
July 17, 2007

"Every once in a while, the saxophonist and drummer just have to be alone. So said the venerable tenorist Benny Golson in concert a few years ago, a coy grin creeping over his face, before launching himself into the stratosphere against his drummer of the evening. “Against, because that's often the form the sax/drums duet takes--a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners, raucously unrestrained and joyfully unapologetic, cacophonous battle to the finish line. On Low Blue Flame however, drummer Andrew Cyrille and saxophonist Greg ...

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Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Relaxes

by Samuel Chell
April 9, 2007

Coleman Hawkins had every right to rest on his laurels by the time of this 1961 recording. But The Hawk Relaxes finds the father of the tenor saxophone--aka Hawk or Bean--doing anything but clinging to his perch. He may no longer be soaring in search of prey but he's gliding on buoyant and vital air-streams, performing to near-perfection an all-ballad program that rewards the attentive listener at each turn.

When the history of the tenor saxophone was being ...

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A Sliver of Cyrille: When We Were Kings & Time Being

by Francis Lo Kee
September 4, 2006

Gaetano Liguori/Andrew Cyrille/Guido Mazzon When We Were Kings Soul Note 2006 Trio 3 Time Being Intakt 2006

Andrew Cyrille is one of jazz' most accomplished, creative and dynamic drummers. Perhaps best known for his work with Cecil Taylor during one of the pianist's most fertile periods, his playing always demonstrates concern ...

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Gaetano Liguori - Andrew Cyrille - Guido Mazzon: When We Were Kings

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 17, 2006

Dagli anni `70 ad oggi il free italiano ha seguito una via tangenziale rispetto agli sviluppi storici del genere. Mancando lo scambio di elementi presente altrove, quindi è rimasto alla fine isolato - sia per quanto riguarda gli aspetti tecnici che per quelli organizzativi - da quello che succedeva in Europa e veniva documentato da case discografiche ormai storiche quali la FMP tedesca o la Incus inglese. Gaetano Liguori e Guido Mazzon sono stati tra i principali protagonisti di quegli ...

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Roswell Rudd / Archie Shepp: Live in New York

by John Stevenson
July 1, 2001

The year was 1994. The venue: the Eilat Red Sea Jazz Festival. Hundreds of sweltering Jazz aficionados waited in a huge converted cargo shed to witness reedman Archie Shepp and his quartet--a marquee coup for the Israeli festival. When Shepp swaggered onto the stage, the more discerning members of the audience (including this reviewer) could scarcely conceal their disappointment. Here was the 1960s hero of radical Jazz conservatively bedecked in two--piece gray suit and tie. He might as well have ...

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Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich: C/D/E

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2001

Having begun in 1996 as an intended quartet for the Knitting Factory's What Is Jazz Festival, “B/C/D/E" soon dropped the “B" when cornetist and trumpeter Bobby Bradford was unable to attend for financial reasons. Ever since, “C/D/E"--or Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser and Marty Ehrlich--has maintained the spirit of Bradford's and John Carter's music in their performances. As a strong influence on all three members of the cooperative, Bradford's influence is still felt in the music as they play tunes performed ...