Jazz Articles about Craig Taborn

About Craig Taborn

Radio & Podcasts

This week new albums from Enrique Peña, Gary Eastman, Shawn Maxwell and Philippe Côté with Marc Copland. Also, continuing my look at the recent releases by Craig Taborn and The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with their suites inspired by Dewey Redman and Anthony Braxton.Playlist Enrique Peña “Gris" from Intersticios (ears&eyes) 00:00 The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra “The Very Thought Of You" from Where Rivers Meet (Bandcamp) 05:35 Dewey Redman “If I Should Lose You" from Living On The ...

Album Review

Craig Taborn: Shadow Plays

Read "Shadow Plays" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
December 6, 2021

Recorded with stunning clarity of sound and a brave vision, at Vienna's Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus in March 2020, Craig Taborn's visceral variations on a theme and quixotic poetics rise and fall majestically on Shadow Plays, a bold, fully-rendered successor to his last solo ECM outing Avenging Angel (2011) The rapturously inquisitive Taborn absorbs listeners immediately into his creative space by employing chiming arpeggios (like flocks of birds) and chords of doom to introduce the venturesome, seventeen-minute ...

Extended Analysis

Brass And Ivory Tales

by Hrayr Attarian
November 23, 2021

Innovative saxophonist Ivo Perelman celebrates his 60th birthday with the release of a magnum opus, Brass And Ivory Tales. Recorded over a period of seven years, this nine-volume box set is impressive in both its depth and breath as it matches Perelman with a different piano master per disc. The improvised duets are usually the first documented meeting between the two musicians and the instant and rapidly evolving synergy is fresh and thrilling. Both remarkable and expected is Perelman's ability ...

Album Review

Ivo Perelman: Brass And Ivory Tales

Read "Brass And Ivory Tales" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 16, 2021

Archeologists and cultural anthropologists theorize early humans had some form of music appreciation. They listened to the sounds wind made as it passed through trees. The breeze sounded different passing through oak than it did fir trees, and the sound was altered whether it was spring or fall. Then there were the bird songs, the first Lennon & McCartneys of the stone age. Early man replicated these melodies, with bones that could be whittled into horns or used to recreate ...

Live Review

Steve Coleman a Imola e Crag Taborn a Ferrara

by Libero Farnè
November 9, 2021

Steve Coleman & Five Elements Teatro Ebe Stignani, Imola 9.10.2021 Craig Taborn Trio Torrione Jazz Club, Ferrara 5.10.2021 È davvero interminabile e ubiqua la programmazione del festival Crossroads, giunto alla ventiduesima edizione, coinvolgendo tutto il territorio dell'Emilia-Romagna. Iniziata a Correggio il 17 maggio con Little Italy, il giovane gruppo di Giovanni Guidi, si concluderà a Piangipane (Ravenna) il 9 dicembre con il duo Enrico Rava--Roberto Taufic. Fra ottobre e l'inizio di ...

Album Review

Craig Taborn: Shadow Plays

Read "Shadow Plays" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
October 11, 2021

La duttilità stilistica, la capacità di costruire improvvisazione con logica ad ampio respiro, la tenace attitudine esplorativa, la tecnica sopraffina fanno di Craig Taborn una figura di spicco della musica contemporanea. Lo conferma questa nuova prova in piano solo, pubblicata da ECM a dieci anni di distanza dal precedente Avenging Angel, sempre stampato dall'etichetta di Monaco, che fu la prima pubblicazione di un suo lavoro in solitudine: un disco memorabile, la cui ricchezza continua a stimolare tuttora l'ascolto.

Album Review

Hafez Modirzadeh: Facets

Read "Facets" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
June 4, 2021

Innovative composer and saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh has always pushed the idiomatic envelope in his work. His eighth release as a leader, the stimulating Facets is, as hinted on the cover art, a musical kaleidoscope. Consisting of 18 short tracks the album explores various time signatures, modes and tonal colors that fuse many musical traditions. Three equally idiosyncratic artists take turns for a set of solos and duets with Modirzadeh. “Facet Sorey," for instance, is a crystalline tune with ...