Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum

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Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Apparent Distance

by Mark Corroto
November 15, 2011

It is nearly impossible to stand far enough away from Taylor Ho Bynum's four-part suite, Apparent Distance, to take the entire piece in. It is both a thoroughly composed and an improvisational undertaking that swings as a conventional jazz sextet but challenges like a multi-directional chamber ensemble. Like Bynum himself, the music is not easily pigeonholed.Drop your phonograph needle just about anywhere (never heard of this? ask your dad) onto the record and the focal point changes. From ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum - John Hébert - Gerald Cleaver: Book of Three

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 9, 2011

Un trio dedito per lo più all'improvvisazione da camera, che cerca di evidenziare le straordinarie qualità dei singoli all'interno di un discorso rigorosamente collettivo. La musica non si concentra su materiale tematico ma evolve da idee ritmico-timbriche, spesso scure, drammatiche. C'è un evidente legame con la vecchia scuola chicagoana, come nella magnifica apertura di “White Birch": note lunghe della cornetta sordinata, spazi estesi, contrasti di percussioni, autorevole intervento di Hébert. L'ombra è quella di Wadada Leo Smith. Taylor Ho-Bynum è ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum / John Hebert / Gerald Cleaver: Book Of Three

by John Sharpe
February 16, 2011

While trumpet plus rhythm trios are not a dime a dozen, they are becoming increasingly common currency. Following after Stephen Haynes' Parrhesia (Engine, 2011) and Kirk Knuffke's Chew Your Food (No Business Records, 2010), arrives an entry by the adventurous threesome of cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, bassist John Hébert and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Though the title references Lloyd Alexander's children's favorite, it also neatly fits the ethos of three clearly separate authors who nevertheless meld their ideas into nine unified ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise

by John Sharpe
May 19, 2010

Taylor Ho Bynum is one of the most inventive and exciting trumpeters of his generation. Well known for his association with such seminal figures as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon, he is also building a substantial body of work in his own right. Stepwise is his second duet with drummer and longtime ally Tomas Fujiwara, after True Events (482 Music, 2007), which made several best of year lists.

This time out there four compositions, two from the, that ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

by Ivana Ng
October 8, 2009

Madeleine Dreams is about as odd as the novel upon which it is based. Taylor Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings weave deftly through the magical realism of Madeleine is Sleeping, a novel written by Bynum's sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura flows through the divide between dream and reality with grace. She narrates the first seven tracks, the lyrics of which are excerpts from the story, with a smoky alto that at turns belongs to a ...

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Taylor Ho Bynum / Spider Monkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

by John Sharpe
September 21, 2009

That this is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's fourth leadership date so far this year speaks volumes about his growing stature as a bandleader, writer and virtuoso instrumentalist. Justly known as one of celebrated composer/saxophonist Anthony Braxton's foremost interpreters over the last decade, Bynum's star now shines even more brightly in the creative music firmament, thanks to these multiple projects, and parts in Jason Kao Hwang's Edge, the Convergence Quartet and the orchestras of Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor. ...

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Positive Catastrophe: Garabatos Volume One

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 15, 2009

Il disco di questa band, in cui spicca in veste di “co-leader" la figura di Taylor Ho Bynum, compositore e trombettista collaboratore tra gli altri di Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor e Bill Dixon, inizia con un brano veloce, “Plena Organisation," in 2/4, quasi folk, musica che apre nuovi spazi all'immaginazione, e in cui ogni strumento cerca in questo paesaggio - fatto di rapide fotografie in sequenza - una sua personale strada, un proprio racconto, una propria storia. Ad un certo ...