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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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A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Liminal; Animistic; Holding Presence in Time; Holding Space; Tracers of Cosmic Space; Myopic Seer; A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet; Alluvial; Threadwork; All Alone Together.

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Article: Jazz Raconteurs

James Brandon Lewis: Jazz, Spirituality, and the Art and Science of Musical Abstraction

Read "James Brandon Lewis: Jazz, Spirituality, and the Art and Science of Musical Abstraction" reviewed by Dave Kaufman


The contemporary jazz world is currently witnessing an artistic renaissance, characterized by an upsurge in creativity and innovation. This movement is fueled in part by rising stars such as Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, and Isaiah Collier, as well as seasoned veterans like Charles Lloyd, David Murray, William Parker, Joe Lovano, and Bill Frisell, whose creative passion ...

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Article: Album Review

Angelica Sanchez - Chad Taylor: A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet

Read "A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven't Met Yet" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Angelica Sanchez and Chad Taylor's collaboration on the album A Monster is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet is a serendipitous blend of jazz's past and future wrapped in a package so enigmatic that it might as well come with its own set of riddles. The duo, comprising Sanchez's deft piano work and Taylor's percussive ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

James Brandon Lewis, Federico Ughi, Matthew Shipp & Fall Raye

Read "James Brandon Lewis, Federico Ughi, Matthew Shipp & Fall Raye" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


There are a lot of superlatives for the playing of saxophonist James Brandon Lewis floating about these days, and they're all well-deserved. JBL continues to make great music. His new Transfiguration with his quartet of Aruan Ortiz, Brad Jones & Chad Taylor--out on the Intakt label from Switzerland---keeps the momentum rolling. Mark this one down for ...

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Article: Album Review

James Brandon Lewis: For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)

Read "For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)" reviewed by Chris May


Not since Oded Tzur's Isabela (ECM, 2022) has a comparably exalted tenor saxophone-led album come along, not until For Mahalia, With Love. Vaultingly great jazz and deep solace for the soul, For Mahalia, With Love was released in late 2023. An annual cycle for albums of this quality is actually a sufficiency, for there is enough ...

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Article: Play This!

James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet: Sparrow

Read "James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet: Sparrow" reviewed by Chris May


Here is the opening track from James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet's For Mahalia, With Love (TAO Forms, 2023), a celebration of the music of Mahalia Jackson, remaining true to its original essence but framing it in a jazz context. Not since Oded Tzur's Isabela (ECM, 2022) has such an exalted tenor saxophone-led album come along. ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Yuhan Su, Stirrup, Arch Trio & Zenophilia

Read "Yuhan Su, Stirrup, Arch Trio & Zenophilia" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


A mixed bag of music with some interesting new albums: Taiwan/New York vibraphonist Yuhan Su dazzles with her release Liberated Gesture; piano threesomes from the Arch Trio from Italy, Wadji Riahi from Tunisia and Omawi from The Netherlands; Stirrup with Fred Longberg--Holm cello, Nick Macri bass & Charles Rumback drums, another trio of pianist John Blum, ...

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For Mahalia With Love (Expanded Edition)

Label: Tao Forms
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Sparrow; Swing Low; Go Down Moses; Wade In The Water; Calvary; Deep River; Elijah Rock; Were You There; Precious Lord; CD2: Introduction by JBL; Prologue - Humility; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Epilogue - Resilience; Encore - Take Me To The Water.

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For Mahalia, With Love

Label: Tao Forms
Released: 2023
Track listing: CD1: Sparrow; Swing Low; Go Down Moses; Wade In The Water; Calvary; Deep River; Elijah Rock; Were You There; Precious Lord; CD2: Introduction by JBL; Prologue - Humility; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Movement I; Epilogue - Resilience; Encore - Take Me To The Water.


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