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Andrew Cyrille
He was artist-residence and teacher at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio from 1971 to 1973. Cyrille has also taught at the Graham Windham Home for Children in New York. He is currently a faculty member at the New School University (formally The New School for Social Research) in New York City. His sterling work has earned him a number of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer, including a commission to create a new work for the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company in 1990. In 1999, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition.
Starting in 1969, Cyrille began to organize the first of several percussion groups, including Dialogue of the Drums, Pieces of Time, and Weights and Measures. Some of the distinguished artists who played in these groups were Kenny Clark, Milford Graves, Famoudou Don Moye, Michael Carvin and Obo Addy. Starting in 1988 through the present time, he has toured and performed here and abroad with the renown Russian percussionist, Vladimir Tarasov.
In 1975,Cyrille formed a band called Maono (feelings) featuring various instrumental voices determined by his compositions. He is a member of Trio 3 featuring alto saxophonist, Oliver Lake and bassist, Reggie Workman. Also from time to time,he leads another group called Haitian Fascination, playing music inspired by the musical tradition from Haiti. Within the past several years, he has been collaborating and working with musicians such as saxophonist, Archie Shepp, trombonist, Roswell Rudd, trumpeter, Dave Douglas, bassists, Henry Grimes andWilliam Parker, pianists Dave Burrell and Marilyn Crispell, and vibraphonist, Karl Berger. He continues to record and perform with duo, trio, quartet, quintet and big band formations.
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Cecil Taylor: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
by Jack Kenny
Hosting a recording by Cecil Taylor represents a new departure for producer Zev Feldman. He is candid about the challenge: “Words fail me to describe the great genius of Cecil Taylor and I could never do him justice, but luckily we have Phil Freeman's erudite words." Freeman contributes a substantial essay to the release. Even after fifty years, Taylor's music remains dense, unrelenting, forceful, and challenging. Time has not diminished its impact. The glorious vivacity is undimmed.
Continue ReadingCecil Taylor: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
by Joshua Weiner
"On one level you can look at him as one of the grandfathers of the free jazz tradition," says pianist Matthew Shipp of Cecil Taylor in the generous booklet included with Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts, a three-LP set released by Elemental Music for Record Store Day 2026 (CD and digital releases will also follow). “But on the other hand...(h)e was very insistent that he came out of a certain tradition, and he talked about Ellington, Monk, and ...
Continue ReadingCecil Taylor Unit: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
by Dan McClenaghan
Cecil Taylor, a pioneer of free jazz, pared down his Cecil Taylor Unit ensemble for a trip through Europe to partake in a 15-date tour in late 1969, in support of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Miles Davis Quintet. This foray was billed as the Newport Jazz Festival In Europe. Taylor's Unit of the day--Taylor on piano, Sam Rivers on reeds, Jimmy Lyons on alto sax and Andrew Cyrille in the drummer's chair--sounded nothing like the elegance and swing ...
Continue ReadingJames Newton Quartet: Live in Willisau
by Giuseppe Segala
Ecco una pubblicazione molto opportuna, a favore di un musicista il cui lavoro è assai poco documentato. Ne fotografa un momento iniziale, immerso nel campo del jazz, dentro un percorso che, nell'arco di oltre cinquant'anni, ha successivamente toccato tappe di molteplice orientamento, sviluppandosi nella musica accademica contemporanea, per orchestra e da camera, per balletto e danza moderna, senza mai perdere il legame con le radici afroamericane e l'interesse per l'improvvisazione nelle sue varie declinazioni. Autentico virtuoso del ...
Continue ReadingAdegoke Steve Colson: GLOW: Music for Trio...Add Voice
by Marco Iacoboni
L'incandescenza richiamata dal titolo riverbera nella musica di ogni traccia di questo progetto, una narrazione figlia di oltre cinquant'anni di attività musicale e impegno sociale e di contributi alla storia del jazz. Al centro di Glow ci sono il pianista e compositore Adegoke Steve Colson e la cantante Iqua Colson, membri storici e pilastri della seconda generazione dell'AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians di Chicago). A dare sostegno ai Colson troviamo una sezione ritmica costituita da ...
Continue ReadingJohn O'Gallagher: Ancestral
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist John O'Gallagher keeps moving east in his search for musical expression. Born in Anaheim, California, before relocating to jny: New York City and living there for thirty years, he finds himself (in 2025) in Lisbon, Portugal. He boasts a played with/recorded with resume to knock the proverbial socks off (Joe Henderson, Tony Malaby, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler, and more). He also dived John Coltrane's late period explorations--Interstellar Space (Impulse!, 1974) and Stellar Regions (Impulse Records, 1967), From this Coltrane-ian ...
Continue ReadingJakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns
by Neil Duggan
Despite being recorded a decade ago, this album from Danish guitarist Jakob Bro sounds as fresh and contemporary as any 2024 release. Taking Turns was originally recorded in New York in 2014; the album release was delayed by ECM Records, who initially preferred to highlight Bro's trio work. The postponement proves fortuitous, as Bro's melodic compositions create expansive soundscapes that invite his all-star sextet to explore and improvise around his delicately rendered musical themes. Bro composed the seven ...
Continue ReadingECM Releases Four New Titles in September: Tigran Hamasyan, Giovanni Guidi, Andrew Cyrille and Jakob Bro
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RELEASE DATE: September 9 Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan: piano; Arve Henriksen: trumpet; Eivind Aarset: guitar; Jan Bang: electronics and live sampling. This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new quartet with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM—Jan Bang on Eivind Aarset’s Dream Logic, for instance, and Bang and Aarset on Arve Henriksen’s Cartography— but with Hamasyan at ...
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Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination - Route de Fra Res (2011)
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Something Else!
Brooklyn-born to Haitian parents, drummer Andrew Cyrille had gone on to record with Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins and Roland Kirk before beginning a decade-plus stint in Cecil Taylor's band during some of Taylor's most creative periods. Cyrille's legacy only grew further as a leader and co-leader of groups that included the likes of Billy Bang, David S. Ware, Milford Graves and Rashied Ali. After a five decade career that put him in the elite among drummers of modern and ...
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Peter Brotzmann and Andrew Cyrille - Andrew Cyrille Meets Peter Brotzmann in Berlin (FMP, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
A live meeting between multi-reedist Peter Brotzmann and drummer and percussionist Andrew Cryille seems like a match made in free-jazz heaven. Recorded live at a Free Music Symposium in Berlin in 1982, this album lives up to its potential with strong, powerful playing and potent, thoughtful interplay between the musicians. The opening track “Wolf Whistle" is a massive side long slab of free improvisation, with the two musicians bobbing and weaving like fine boxers, looking for space before finally locking ...
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Announcing the Winners of the Porter Records "Profound Sound Trio -- Opus De Life" Giveaway!
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All About Jazz
Enter the Porter Records "Profound Sound Trio - Opus de Life" CD Giveaway Contest
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Porter Records “Profound Sound Trio - Opus De Life“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on August 23rd. Click here to enter the contest
(Following Andrew Cyrille at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)
Good luck! Your Friends at Porter Records
About the Profound Sound Trio The Profound Sound Trio, first heard in the Vision Festival of 2008, ...
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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake / Reggie Workman / Andrew Cyrille) @ Barnes & Noble, Cool Mondays Mini-Showcase/Signing, July 20, 6PM
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The Cinarae Group
Jazz masters Oliver Lake (sax), Reggie Workman (bass) and Andrew Cyrille (drums) showcase selections from their exciting new release, TRIO 3 (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) + Geri Allen, At This Time.
TRIO 3 (Lake/Workman/Cyrille) Barnes and Noble Cool Mondays Series Mini-Showcase/Signing Mon., July 20, 6pm Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway @ W. 66th, NYC FREE
COMING IN AUGUST Don't miss TRIO 3 + Geri Allen @ Birdland, August 5-8, 8:30 & 11pm sets. BIRDLAND ...
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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard, Mar. 6-9
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The Cinarae Group
Kicking off their twentieth-year anniversary, TRIO 3, the high octane collaboration of jazz masters Lake, Workman and Cyrille, features the stellar pianist and innovator, Geri Allen, for a four-day fete of improvisation at its best!
TRIO 3 Oliver Lake (Multi-Reeds), Reggie Workman (Bass) and Andrew Cyrille (Drums) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard Thursday - Sunday March 6-9 (sets nightly at 7:30 & ...
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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake/Reggie Workman/Andrew Cyrille) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard, Mar. 6-9
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The Cinarae Group
Kicking off their twentieth-year anniversary, TRIO 3, the high octane collaboration of jazz masters Lake, Workman and Cyrille, features the stellar pianist and innovator, Geri Allen, for a four-day fete of improvisation at its best!
TRIO 3 Oliver Lake (Multi-Reeds), Reggie Workman (Bass) and Andrew Cyrille (Drums) Plus Special Guest, Pianist Geri Allen @ Jazz Standard Thu - Sun March 6-9 Sets nightly at ...
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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille) Featuring Pianist Geri Allen @ Iridium, Aug.30 & Aug. 31, 8 & 10PM Sets
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The Cinarae Group
FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY! Experience the musical symmetry of three jazz titans (Lake, Workman and Cyrille) joined by the piano majestry of Geri Allen. DON'T MISS IT! TRIO 3 Oliver Lake (Multi-Reeds), Reggie Workman (Bass) & Andrew Cyrille (Drums) Featuring Pianist Geri Allen @ Iridium Thurs., Aug. 30 & Fri., Aug. 31 Sets: 8 & 10pm $30/$10 min. 1650 Broadway ...
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Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille) Featuring Pianist Geri Allen at Iridium, Aug.30-Aug. 31
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The Cinarae Group
FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY! Experience the musical symmetry of three jazz titans (Lake, Workman and Cyrille) joined by the piano majestry of Geri Allen. DON'T MISS IT!
TRIO 3 Oliver Lake (Multi-Reeds), Reggie Workman (Bass) & Andrew Cyrille (Drums) Featuring Pianist Geri Allen at Iridium Thurs., Aug.30 & Fri., Aug. 31 Sets: 8 & 10pm 1650 Broadway NYC
Pls. make reservations early at 212-582-2121 ...
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