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Interview

Craig Taborn: Suggesting Textural Dimension

by Phil DiPietro
May 2, 2003

Craig Taborn has distinguished himself through his work, some of it nothing short of groundbreaking, with some of the most important musicians in New York's “Downtown" scene. His contributions during parallel careers with Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Marty Ehrlich, Gerald Cleaver, Dave Douglas' Witness project, and Tim Berne's Hard Cell and Science Friction Units, has been thrillingly spontaneous yet organic, accomplished yet somehow ephemeral. Craig possesses that trait so valued by listeners and leaders alike (and sometimes not, by the ...

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Album Review

Craig Taborn: Light Made Lighter

Read "Light Made Lighter" reviewed by Matt Rand

by Matt Rand
June 22, 2002

The decision to form an acoustic piano trio for his latest release, Light Made Lighter, offered an interesting challenge for Craig Taborn. Although he has years of experience with the instrument, he's also spent every one of those years fiddling with the dials on his Moog. Whether on synthesizer, sequencer, Fender Rhodes or Hammond B-3, he’s made a career of the beauty of sound as its own end. Yet when stripped of the nuanced current that electricity grants him, Taborn's ...

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Album Review

Craig Taborn Trio: Light Made Lighter

Read "Light Made Lighter" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2001

The title of this trio disc by Craig Taborn may summon up all kinds of ideas, but the one that definitely doesn't fit is lightweight. This is serious, creative, challenging music. Taborn built his reputation through a series of records dating back to '93 with James Carter's groups. Now Carter may be an experimentalist of sorts (especially when performing live), but Taborn has his own set of very personal ideas. On Light Made Lighter he lays them out in a ...