Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths

by Glenn Astarita
February 4, 2009

Since his studies and performances with new music and improvisational pioneer Anthony Braxton, hornist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum has assumed many musical hats amid his incredibly all-embracing vernacular. Whether it's avant chamber-jazz, large scale orchestra fare or variable ensemble groupings, his ascent towards the upper echelon of today's forward-thinking artists cannot be understated. Bynum's ability to seamlessly merge distinct genres or thought processes into a singular identity is often astonishing. Sure enough, Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths drives these aspects home in ...

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths

by Troy Collins
January 3, 2009

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has garnered a considerable amount of acclaim since his stunning debut as an ensemble leader on Other Stories (Three Suites) (482 Music, 2005). Widely considered composer Anthony Braxton's most promising former student, Bynum continues to work with his former mentor, acting as one of his key collaborators, while maintaining a distinct identity as a singular composer.

Although Bynum shares some of Braxton's esoteric qualities (the modular structure of the “whYeXpliCitieS" suite, for example), he ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: A Trickster Sensibility

by Chris May
November 26, 2008

Is Taylor Ho Bynum the most extraordinary cornet player to emerge since Louis Armstrong? It's beginning to look that way. With a vast sonic vocabulary, blessed with soaring lyricism, fearlessly forward looking yet with a hotline to gut bucket primitivism, Bynum, still in his early 30s, is already a singular and thrilling artist.

Two late 2007/early 2008 sessions--Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths, featuring Bynum's own sextet, and High Definition, made as a member of bassist Joe Morris' quartet--grab the ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths

by Robert Iannapollo
November 16, 2008

Since he started teaching at Wesleyan University in the '90s, Anthony Braxton has found a large number of players who have embraced his compositional and improvisational ideas. Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has been among the most active in Braxton's galaxy. Bynum has also been directing a large array of his own ensembles; of those, his sextet is one of the most fruitful. Populated by other students of Braxton, this group released the superb Middle Picture (Firehouse 12, 2007).

Anthony Braxton: Trio (Glasgow) 2005

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 18, 2007

Concluso il capitolo della Ghost Trance Music, Anthony Braxton presenta in questo doppio compact due nuove composizioni (la “323a" e la “323b") eseguite dal vivo al Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art il 23 giugno 2005 assieme a Tom Crean alla chitarra e Taylor Ho Bynum alla cornetta, flicorno e trombone. Prendendo in mano il disco, la prima cosa che balza all'attenzione è l'esclusivo uso del sax contralto da parte del leader, (eccetto le sporadiche sortite elettroniche). Un fatto singolare per ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: The Middle Picture

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 25, 2007

Quanti ex-braxtoniani ci sono in circolazione? Decine? Centinaia? La conta ufficiale non è mai stata fatta, ma certamente il mondo è pieno di musicisti che sono transitati nelle fila delle innumerevoli compagini allestite dal maestro di Chicago. Altrettanto indubbiamente, se si dovesse assegnare la palma del fedelissimo per l’ultimo quinquennio, il premio andrebbe a Taylor Ho Bynum. Dal sestetto al quintetto (recentemente apprezzato nel concerto alla Royal Festival Hall di Londra), dal duo (documentato sul CD Duets (Wesleyan) 2002) al ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: Spontaneous Yet Focused

by John Sharpe
April 30, 2007

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is at the forefront of a younger generation of creative musicians in New York. He combines thrilling improvisation with stealthy composition, unconfined by genre. Best known for his association with Anthony Braxton, Bynum has played a leading role in the realization of the saxophonist's recent oeuvre. There has been a deserved upsurge in Bynum's profile of late, culminating in the release of two excellent, but very different, recordings: True Events (482 Music, 2007), a duet with ...