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Chad Taylor

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Chad Taylor (b. 1973) is a composer, educator, percussionist and scholar who is a co-founder of the Chicago Underground ensembles. Originally from Tempe, AZ, Chad grew up in Chicago where he started performing professionally at the age of 16. Chad has performed with Fred Anderson, Derek Bailey, Cooper-Moore, Pharoah Sanders, Marc Ribot, Peter Brotzmann, Malachi Favors and many others. Chad leads his own band Circle down which debut recording was given a 5 star review by All music: "What is remarkable is that there is no wasted motion, no histrionics or grandstanding, as pure emotion is translated to superlative music making on this most highly recommended recording, one for the ages." Allmusic.com Chad has a BFA from the New School in Jazz Performance and a MFA in Jazz Research and History from Rutgers University.

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Abstraction Is Deliverance

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ware; Per 7; Even The Sparrow; Remember Rosalind; Abstraction Is Deliverance; Multicellular Beings; Mr. Crick; Left Alone; Polaris.

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Article: In Pictures

Chad Taylor and Smoke Shifter at the Jazz Gallery

Read "Chad Taylor and Smoke Shifter at the Jazz Gallery" reviewed by Dave Kaufman


The most excellent album, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love Records, 2025), places Chad Taylor in the foreground as a bandleader, but his enduring presence onstage is evidenced by a long career built on deep collaborations. He is widely recognized for his close musical bond with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, an association that ranges from duo work to ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

2025 Releases from Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Frank Gratkwski, Chad Taylor and more!

Read "2025 Releases from Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Frank Gratkwski, Chad Taylor and more!" reviewed by Jon Greenbaum


Host Jon Greenbaum focuses on new and recent releases in this survey of artists exploring the boundaries of improvisation and composition.PlaylistFrank Gratkowski “Wie Lieblich Schallt" from Frank Gratkowski's In Cahoots (Klanggalerie) 00:00:00 André Carvalho “Dente de Leite" from Of Fragility and Impermanence (Robalo Music) 00:08:02 Wadada Leo Smith Marcus Gilmore and Jakob Bro “Sonic ...

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Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

Read "I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

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Hyperglyph

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Click Song; Hyperglyph; Rhythm Cloth; Contents of Your Heavenly Body; The Gathering; Plymouth; Hemiunu; Egyptian Suite / Part 1: The Architect; Egyptian Suite / Part 2: Triangulation of Light; Egyptian Suite / Part 3: Architectronics of Time; Succulent Amber.

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Live in Philadelphia

Label: Otherly Love Records/Ars Nova
Released: 2025
Track listing: Seductive Fantasy; Back to You; We'll Wait For You/Hit That Jive, Jack; The Last Transmission; Stay Lifted; On Solar Planes; Space Ghost; The Hills; Square The Circle; In The Silence Of The Infinite; Cosmic Dreamers, Ode to Elegua; The Unknown; Warn Them; Slip Stream; Tachyons Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints; Rindima.

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Smoke Shifter

Label: Otherly Love Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Broken Horse; Avian Shadow; Waltz for Meghan; Smoke Shifter; Octobert 26th; Paradise Lawns / October 29th.

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PIVOT

Label: Silkheart Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Sensation of Sliding; Blowing out from Chicago; Epistemological Glide; Drops of Sorrow. Accelerating; PIVOT Duos 1; PIVOT Duos 2; PIVOT Duos 3; PIVOT Duos 4; PIVOT Duos 5; PIVOT Duos 6; Unmeasured Mile; I am aware. Standing in Snow.; Drifting against the Wind.; Popular Music Theory.

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Apple Cores

Label: Anti-
Released: 2025
Track listing: Apple Cores #1; Prince Eugene; Five Spots to Caravan; Of Mind and Feeling; Apple Cores #2; Remember Brooklyn & Moki; Broken Shadows; D.C. Got Pocket; Apple Cores #3; Don't Forget Jayne; Exactly, Our Music.


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