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Album

How We Do

Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Three Parts as One; Triceratops Blues; How We Do; The Golden Hour; Doin’ The Thing; Circular Path; Two Sides; Tea for T.

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Three Parts As One

October 26, 2019

Album: How We Do
By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2019
Duration: 07:27

Article: Album Review

John Yao's Triceratops: How We Do

Read "How We Do" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
August 15, 2019

Trombonist and bandleader John Yao possesses a penchant for imposing ambitious artistic constraints on himself. How We Do continues that trend with a newly formed quintet comprised only of three horns, bass, and drums. Yao further ups the ante by composing demanding pieces that often careen from one stylistic approach to another within the same tune. ...

Album

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.

Article: Album Review

John Yao Quintet: Presence

Read "Presence" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 13, 2017

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 ...

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Presence

May 23, 2017

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

Album

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

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Hellgate

July 19, 2015

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

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John Yao: Flip-Flop

Read "Flip-Flop" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
July 16, 2015

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. ...

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John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument: Flip-Flop

Read "Flip-Flop" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2015

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 ...