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Presence

By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2017
Track listing: Tight Rope; Presence; M. Howard; Over The Line; Fuzzy Logic; Nightfall; 1247 Chestnut; Bouncy's Bounce.
John Yao Quintet: Presence

by Dan Bilawsky
As human beings we tend to take the very notion of presence for granted, be it the presence of a loved one in our lives, the presence manufactured by our own actions as we present ourselves to the world, or the presence of all that comes and goes in our daily existence. For some reason these ...
Presence

Album: Presence
By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2017
Duration: 4:40
Flip-Flop

By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: Flip-Flop; New Guy; Slow…Children at Play; Soundscape No.1; Hellgate; Reflection; Ode to the Last Twinkie; Soundscape No.2; Illumination
Robert Sabin: Humanity Part II
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by Jack Bowers
Although Humanity Part II, the oracular title of bassist Robert Sabin's new album, may summon images of a Mel Brooks parody (Part I must have slipped past us), the music itself is decidedly serious. In the liner notes, wherein he references Albert Camus, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Ingmar Bergman, Maurice Ravel and Dario Argento, Sabin makes ...
Hellgate

Album: Flip-Flop
By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2015
Duration: 08:23
John Yao: Flip-Flop

by Karl Ackermann
On his 2012 debut, trombonist John Yao navigated multiple complex territories ranging from the experimental to traditional balladry. A regular presence on the New York scene, Yao has worked with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. Having absorbed those big band sensibilities, Yao graduates from his inaugural quintet to a seventeen-piece ensemble. ...
John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument: Flip-Flop

by Jack Bowers
Music aside, you have to love the name of this band: John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument. Now there's confidence with a capital C! Yao, a New York City-based trombonist who arrived there from his native Chicago more than a decade ago, has more recently turned his hand to composing and arranging. Yao writes with the ...
John Yao: Flip-Flop

by Franz A. Matzner
The trombone is one of jazz's secret weapons. Not as ubiquitous as the saxophone or as iconic as the trumpet in the popular imagination, it nonetheless holds a powerful position as one of jazz's defining instruments. It's also the case that the trombone appears to be currently experiencing a renaissance--one which trombonist, composer, and bandleader John ...
In The Now

By John Yao
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: Divisions; Funky Sunday; For NDJ; In The Now; Now Even Close; Pink Eye; Shorter Days; Snafu.