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Taylor Ho Bynum to Introduce Revamped Sextet in August

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This August, cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum will unveil the latest incarnation of his five year-old working ensemble, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, when he and the group hit the road to perform a brand new book of music. These pieces are made possible with support from Chamber Music America's 2010 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

The four-city tour will begin Friday, August 20th at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, MA and include stops at New York's Jazz Gallery (August 21st), Saalfelden, Austria's Saalfelden Jazz Festival (August 29th) and New Haven's Firehouse 12 (September 10th), where the sextet tour ends and Bynum's two-week Acoustic Bicycle Tour begins. The 2010 version of the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet features Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), who appeared on the band's first two releases, as well as new additions Jim Hobbs (alto saxophone), Bill Lowe (bass trombone) and Ken Filiano (bass).

“I've kept my core trio in tact," Bynum explains, “but now brought in the most traditional instrumentation of any band I've ever had, with a classic three-horn, three-piece rhythm section line-up. While Bill, Jim and Ken are new to this particular group, I've had long musical relationships with each of them, stretching back many years (20 years in Bill's case, he was one of my first mentors when I was 15!). So, there is a high level of creative intimacy in the ensemble, which allows me to design musical contexts tailored to feature the individual voices of the musicians."

“Bynum's music is filled with a fabulous array of textures," wrote Cadence's Jason Bivins in his review of the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet's 2007 debut, The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12 Records). “He arranges and composes music in a way that really takes advantage of these resources, putting his mates into all kinds of provocative situations and combinations." Critics have also described Bynum's work with the band as “thought-provoking" (Nate Chinen, New York Times), “consistently compelling listening" (Time Out New York), “virtuosity on its own terms" (David R. Adler), and “the shape of jazz to come" (Philip Clark, The Wire).

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