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News: Interview

Keyboardist Craig Taborn Interviewed at AAJ

June 15, 2009

There is no place for fear or doubt in pianist Craig Taborn's playing--such states are banished from a mind that seeks to explore the musical possibilities of each moment with maximum freedom. Taborn's improvisational playing is a continual creation where the journey is the thing, and words like beautiful, ugly and mistake have virtually no meaning. ...

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Article: Interview

Craig Taborn: Rooted

by Ian Patterson
June 15, 2009

Album

Mahavishnu Orchestra Redefined II

By chriss massey

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Gore - original composition by John Gorr. originally released on 'forever sharp and vivid' - Lolo Records

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Article: Live Review

David Torn's Prezens at Joe's Pub, NYC

by Budd Kopman
March 26, 2008

David Torn and Prezens at Joe's Pub, NYCJoe's PubNew York City, NYMarch 13, 2008 The quartet that took the stage is a live version of the group that is on prezens (ECM, 2007), which is the result of guitarist/electronics magician David Torn's post-processing of many hours of improvising by him, ...

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News: Event

Firehouse 12 to Present David Torn's Prezens This Friday 3/14

March 11, 2008

On Friday, March 14th, Firehouse 12 will kick off its 13-week Spring Jazz Series with a two-set performance by experimental guitarist David Torn's all-star quartet, Prezens. The group unites Torn with the members of acclaimed saxophonist Tim Berne's electro-acoustic trio, Hard Cell, featuring keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Tom Reney. Prezens is touring the U.S. in ...

Album

Prezens

By David Torn

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Ak; Rest & Unrest; Structural Functions of Prezens; Bulbs; Them Buried Standing; Sink; Neck- deep in the Harrow...; Ever More Other; Ring for Endless Travel; Miss Place, the Mist...; Transmit Regardless.

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Article: Interview

David Torn: A Lifetime of Improvisation in Non-Improvisational Settings

by Paul Olson
October 8, 2007

David Torn has done work in so many capacities in such a variety of musical projects that it's somewhat daunting to try to state just what exactly he is. Certainly Torn's a guitarist of humbling technique--but he's always been more interested in texture and sound than the kind of electric shredding beloved in guitar-hero-worshiping ...

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Article: Album Review

Manu Katche: Playground

Read "Playground" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
September 18, 2007

It may not appear until the fourth track in, but the propulsive “So Groovy" could easily have been the title for the follow-up to Manu Katché's award-winning ECM debut, 2005's Neighbourhood. Still, Playground is no less fitting since it's an album that demonstrates--with three-fifths of Neighbourhood's members reconvened, and two younger but emergent players replacing the ...

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Article: Album Review

David Torn: Prezens

by Budd Kopman
July 25, 2007

With Prezens, guitarist and electronics magician David Torn returns to ECM with his first album since Cloud About Mercury (ECM, 1987). In the intervening twenty-year absence, Torn has made a number of albums for other labels, and has also composed movie soundtracks. The music was created by a working band that spent years ...

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Article: Album Review

David Torn: Prezens

Read "Prezens" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
July 9, 2007

David Torn never ceases to amaze with the variety of stylistic veins of sound he mines for gold and gems. There are many guitarists out there but rarely has someone shown such a broad scope with their playing, wide taste in influences, musical diversity, and capability in painting challenging and solitary impressions with their guitar brushstrokes. ...