Jazz Articles about Craig Taborn

About Craig Taborn

Album Review

Misterioso. E imperscrutabile. Si presenta così il nuovo album di Craig Taborn. Perché le certezze del primo brano -oh, ecco il Taborn che conosciamo, il suo approccio, i punti fermi del suo stile, le linee guida della sua estetica in bella evidenza -svaniscono nel resto del lavoro. Dove ci si addentra progressivamente e irrimediabilmente in una nebulosa dai contorni indefiniti, con figure sfumate, apparizioni tra ombra e luce -Daylight Ghosts?-silenzi in qualche modo fragorosi, e sirene dal canto melodioso, ammaliatore. ...

Album Review

Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Read "Daylight Ghosts" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
February 21, 2017

In addition to his copious sideman work (including multiple recordings with James Carter, Roscoe Mitchell, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, and Chris Potter, among many others) pianist/keyboardist Craig Taborn has found time to record intermittently as a leader since 1994's Craig Taborn Trio (IDW). This is his third ECM album, following the solo Avenging Angel (2011) and the trio date Chants (2012). The music Taborn composed for Daylight Ghosts' quartet emphasizes group improvisation over sharply defined soloist/accompanist roles, facilitated ...

Album Review

Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Read "Daylight Ghosts" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
February 5, 2017

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, ...

Album Review

Craig Taborn: Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27

Read "Flaga: Book of Angels, Volume 27" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 14, 2016

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 ...

Lyrics

Save the Date - Febbraio 2015

by Luca Canini
February 9, 2015

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 ...

Live Review

Craig Taborn Trio at Gent Jazz Club

by John Sharpe
October 28, 2014

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 ...

Album Review

David Binney: Lifted Land

Read "Lifted Land" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 2, 2013

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 ...