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Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts
by Troy Dostert
In addition to his eighty-plus appearances as a sideman, pianist Craig Taborn has during the last six years found a happy home for his own music on the ECM label, where he's been able to establish a formidable body of work in just a few recordings. It makes sense, really, that after his solo record Avenging Angel (2011) and trio outing Chants (2013), he is now working with a quartet. An expanded group gives him more tools to work with, ...
Continue ReadingCraig Taborn: Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27
by Dan McClenaghan
There was always a sense that pianist Craig Taborn was more successful as a “super sideman" than as a leader of his own recordings. His contributions to CD offerings by saxophonist Tim Berne, reedman Roscoe Mitchell, saxophonists David Binney and James Carter, and many more, have been critical in crafting dozens of excellent music sets. Then he recorded a solo piano disc for ECM Records, Avenging Angel (2011), followed by a trio set for the label, Chants (2013). These two ...
Continue ReadingSave the Date - Febbraio 2015
by Luca Canini
Vacanze finite per Save the Date. Che dopo essersi preso un mese di aspettativa, anche per colpa di un gennaio avarissimo di proposte, si rimette in moto sfornando consigli e dritte a più non posso. Ma prima ci sono un paio di debiti da saldare. A cavallo della fine dell'anno è andata in scena l'edizione numero 29 del classico agostano Ai confini tra Sardegna e jazz, posticipato per gli immancabili problemi legati ai finanziamenti pubblici. Cosa buona e giusta. Sperando ...
Continue ReadingCraig Taborn Trio at Gent Jazz Club
by John Sharpe
Craig Taborn Trio Belfort Café Gent, Belgium October 13, 2014 For some an enforced line up change mid tour might have spelled disaster. But pianist Craig Taborn's trio rode their fortune and delivered a, likely adrenaline-fuelled, wonderful performance. When drummer Gerald Cleaver, Taborn's most longstanding accomplice, pulled out for medical reasons, the pianist called up reinforcement in the shape of hometown stickman JT Bates. He flew in from Minneapolis, arriving just half ...
Continue ReadingDavid Binney: Lifted Land
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Criss Cross è un'etichetta olandese storicamente impegnata a testimoniare il cosiddetto mainstream attraverso musicisti e incisioni che aggiornano e rinfrescano la lezione dei maestri rimanendo ben all'interno del canone e rispettosi degli assiomi principali. Con delle eccezioni in un catalogo che talvolta apre a musicisti normalmente abituati a frequentare territori più avventurosi come è il caso del sassofonista Dave Binney giunto, con Lifted Land, alla sesta incisione per la label olandese. Anche se i tre minuti scarsi dell'iniziale “Fanfare ...
Continue ReadingDavid Binney: Lifted Land
by John Kelman
In a career that seems to go from strength to strength and milestone to milestone, it's hard to imagine how David Binney manages to not only release one terrific record after another, but to do so, in some cases, under some pretty constricting terms. Like the five other albums that the influential saxophonist/composer has recorded as a leader or co-leader for the Dutch Criss Cross label--most recently 2010's Aliso and the following year's Barefooted Town--producer and label owner Gerry Teekens ...
Continue ReadingCraig Taborn Trio: Columbus, Ohio April 27, 2013
by Mark Corroto
Craig Taborn TrioWexner Center For The ArtsColumbus, OhioApril 27, 2013Traveling to support the release of Chants (ECM, 2013), pianist Craig Taborn's Trio, with bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Gerald Cleaver, made an appearance at The Ohio State University's Wexner Center for The Arts. As label head/producer Manfred Eicher's artists are want to do, this mini-tour--a nine-city North American swing--followed a similar nine-city European jaunt.The pianist stood at the microphone telling his audience, “I ...
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