Jazz Articles about Taylor Ho Bynum

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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Taylor Ho Bynum: The Middle Picture & True Events

by Marc Medwin
April 7, 2007

Taylor Ho Bynum The Middle Picture Firehouse 12 2007 Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara True Events 482 Music 2007

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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...