Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: The Middle Picture

by Troy Collins
April 8, 2007

Tying together conceptual threads from his previous releases, The Middle Picture is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum's most fully realized album to date. Making good on the promise of prior efforts, Bynum incorporates the relaxed spontaneity of his duet with drummer Tomas Fujiwara, True Events (482 Music, 2007), and the studied intricacy of his formal composing skills as featured on Other Stories (Three Suites) (482 Music, 2005), the debut record of his Spidermonkey Strings ensemble.

Taking a cue from ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: The Middle Picture & True Events

by Marc Medwin
April 7, 2007

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To attempt any assertions concerning Taylor Ho Bynumâ????s music based on his Anthony Braxton association is to sell both men and their work short. Braxtonâ????s music has undergone extraordinary changes of ...

Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: True Events

by Jerry D'Souza
March 4, 2007

Time can tell different stories. In the case of Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara, it has been witness to a musical relationship that has spanned fifteen years. The two first played in a tribute to Miles Davis set up by Bynum in his high school. The collaboration continued in a band they formed, and in other settings, until their paths diverged down the road. Later, New York beckoned them both, and they got together once more. That is history. ...

Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: True Events

by Karl A.D. Evangelista
March 3, 2007

The duet is an idea idiom: the scaffolding of improvisation laid bare, like wires gutted from a conduit. Here, musical dialogue becomes something about communicating, or miscommunicating, through paper cups. It's far less obvious that an improviser is making no sense, or has no sense, and/or no ideas, than when musicians are speaking ear to ear.

True Events hazards--if “hazard could describe music so careful--scrutiny, packed, coiled, and double-coiled with ideas. A less generous judgment might call this a “well-studied ...

Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: True Events

by Troy Collins
February 20, 2007

Duets can be among the most revealing of all jazz performances. With only two voices in the mix, there is nowhere for either individual to hide, so having a strong conversational rapport with one's partner is paramount. Between them, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and drummer Tomas Fujiwara share fifteen years of playing experience, and it shows on True Events.

Unimpeded by genre constraints, Bynum and Fujiwara incorporate all matter of inspiration into their purely musical dialogues, drawing from ...

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

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 16, 2006

Partner di Anthony Braxton (leggi la recensione del CD in duo Duets (Wesleyan) 2002), Cecil Taylor ed altri leader dell'avanguardia storica (ma lo troviamo anche al fianco del nostro Carlo Actis Dato in American Tour - February 2002 - Live, il cornettista Taylor Ho Bynum torna sul mercato discografico con un'etichetta particolarmente attenta agli ultimi sviluppi della musica afro-americana dopo gli interessanti lavori in duo con Eric Rosenthal (in And Only Life My Lush Lament e Cenote). Da alcuni anni ...

Taylor Ho Bynum: Other Stories (Three Suites)

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 1, 2005

For a young musician, Taylor Ho Bynum has had an impressive career. He's appeared on as many albums as he is years old--that being thirty--and has worked with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, and Anthony Davis. He studied under and toured with Anthony Braxton, and the pair released a strong recording, Duets (Wesleyan) 2002. He's also performed in some strong ensembles of next-generation players, including the Fully Celebrated Orchestra and a trio with Jeff Song and Curt Newton. ...