Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings

Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings: Other Stories (Three Suites)

by Paul Olson
November 13, 2005

This is not a “cornet with strings album.Cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum does include a string quartet on Other Stories, and he certainly plays cornet on the record--but anyone hoping for an hour of standard jazz soloing over strings will be nonplussed. Anyone else will simply be astonished and delighted. As the album's title states, it consists of three extended suites. For two of them, “Supo Eno and “SpiderMonkey Stories, Bynum is accompanied by a string quartet (Jason Kao ...