Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum

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Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double: March

by Troy Dostert
March 4, 2022

Drummer Tomas Fujiwara's March, another offering from his Triple Double sextet, was recorded in December 2019, prior to the widespread racial unrest that followed the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in 2020. But it feels completely of a piece with those protests, with an unsettled anger and impatience that animate every moment of this absorbing album. Creating music that seems perfectly suited for a tumultuous age, Fujiwara's compositional instincts are spot-on, and he once again marshals ...

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John Hébert: Sounds Of Love

Read "Sounds Of Love" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 19, 2022

In sport, they talk about 'horses for courses,' to describe a parcour suited for particular athletes. That same language can be used to decide an ensemble's lineup for a particular category of music. Bassist and bandleader John Hébert made careful choices to create the quintet to perform music in the spirit of Charles Mingus. In the early 1960s, Mingus toured with saxophonist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Johnny Coles, pianist Jaki Byard, and drummer Dannie Richmond. For Hébert's touring ensemble from 2011 ...

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Anthony Braxton: 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017

Read "12 COMP (ZIM) 2017" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
July 1, 2021

There had been just a slow trickle of recordings from Anthony Braxton, but all at once he made up for lost time with two major releases. One is a 13 CD box set of performances of standards. The other is a collection of recordings of original compositions that form part of his latest musical concept, ZIM Music, twelve works that run for a total of more than 11 hours and are released on a single Blu-Ray disc. ZIM ...

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Anthony Braxton: 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017

Read "12 COMP (ZIM) 2017" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 30, 2021

James Joyce, Anthony Braxton, and a music fan walk into a bar. The bartender says, “what is this? Some kind of a joke?" Joyce (okay, he died in 1941 but stay tuned) indicates, “this is no joke, and please send over the sommelier." The three patrons have come to this establishment to discuss Braxton's latest project, his House Of ZIM. Released as a sextet, septet, and nonet (save the quartets for another time) 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 details eight performances ...

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Emanuele Parrini Quintet feat. Taylor Ho Bynum: Digging. Reflections on Jazz and Blues

Read "Digging. Reflections on Jazz and Blues" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
October 26, 2020

Con questo nuovo disco, registrazione live di un concerto tenutosi a Padova il 17 febbraio 2017, Emanuele Parrini completa il lungo e articolato percorso condotto negli ultimi anni e che aveva avuto per tappe i tre dischi di Viaggio al centro del violino. La formazione e, in gran parte, il materiale tematico della musica sono i medesimi del bellissimo The Blessed Pince uscito per Long Song nel 2016, ma qui si aggiunge il cornettista statunitense Taylor Ho Bynum, la cui ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto

Read "The Ambiguity Manifesto" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
March 31, 2020

All'interno della generazione di musicisti che si sono formati con Anthony Braxton negli anni Novanta, studiando presso di lui alla Wesleyan University e collaborando ai suoi lavori di quel periodo, Taylor Ho Bynum spicca insieme a Mary Halvorson per versatilità dinamica e dovizia progettuale. Bynum, nel periodo in cui ha diretto la Tri-Centric Foundation, dal 2010-2018, ha pure prodotto molti importanti lavori di Braxton, tra cui due poderose opere della serie Trillium e due spettacoli di Sonic Genome. La sua ...

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New albums from Eric St-Laurent, Logan Strosahl and Taylor Ho Bynum

by Bob Osborne
December 19, 2019

This week we feature albums from Eric St-Laurent, Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette and Logan Strosahl. The philosopher Joseph Campbell wrote extensively about “following one's bliss." These influential writings form the conceptual basis for Bliss Station, the 13th album of original music by Toronto-based guitarist and composer Eric St-Laurent. Taylor Ho Bynum's latest release brings together some of the best current players on the circuit to create an album which is both accessible and eccentric in equal ...