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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.
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.
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.
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.
Live in Philadelphia
By Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons
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.
Smoke Shifter
By Chad Taylor
Label: Otherly Love Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Broken Horse; Avian Shadow; Waltz for Meghan; Smoke Shifter; Octobert 26th; Paradise Lawns / October 29th.
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.
Carl Medsker's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Carl Medsker
Best of 2025? A bold claim, given the fire hose of content from which to drink. In my drafts from the torrent, I discovered many engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking releases. The ones on this list were the most often replayed throughout the year and will remain in rotation into the future. Whether energizing or calming, joyful ...
Chad Taylor: Smoke Shifter
by Carl Medsker
Smoke Shifter leans toward tradition, which is perhaps a bit surprising given the exploratory, cutting-edge music previously produced by everyone in this quintet. Led by master percussionist Chad Taylor, the album is a diverse program of well-crafted, contemporary songs performed by an egalitarian collective. Taylor co-founded the Chicago Underground bands with Rob Mazurek, celebrated ...
Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025
by Neri Pollastri
Jazz&Wine of Peace 2025 Varie sedi Cormòns 23-26.10.2025 L'edizione 2025 del Jazz&Wine of Peace, la ventottesima, era anche la prima con un nuovo direttore artistico: a Mauro Bardusco, che da sempre curava la rassegna e che--nonostante la sua scomparsa nel luglio dell'anno scorso --aveva progettato anche la quasi totalità di quella ...
