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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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Mal Waldron / Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors
by Karl Ackermann
Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy first played together in 1958 at the Bowery neighborhood's Five Spot. Their association was long, if not necessarily prolific on record. Though their personal styles contrasted, they frequently existed in a parallel universe. Both expatriates lived in Paris, were predisposed to the avant-garde, and shared a deep appreciation for Thelonious Monk's music. They performed and recorded until 2002 when Waldron died. Barcelona-based Elemental Music Records acquired the previously unreleased recordings of Lacy and Waldron from ...
read moreIvo Perelman, Chad Fowler, Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown
by Troy Dostert
Since founding Mahakala Music in 2019, saxophonist Chad Fowler has done as much as anyone to continue the spirit of unfettered free jazz, drawing on an illustrious roster which includes veterans such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman and many others, with Fowler himself frequently appearing alongside them. The label is also doing a superb job of bringing together cross-generational assemblages of musicians, as on 2022's Alien Skin, which brought Shipp, Parker and Perelman together with Fowler, ...
read moreMal Waldron - Steve Lacy: The Mighty Warriors
by Dan McClenaghan
Producer/jazz detective Zev Feldman is still at it, ferreting out unreleased recordings from jazz giants of the past and releasing them with buffed-up sound quality and first-rate packaging. Long lost recordings from pianists Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum and Ahmad Jamal have seen the light of the twenty-first century, thanks to Feldman, as has newly discovered music from trumpeter Chet Baker. Now it is pianist Mal Waldron (1925 -2002) and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's (1934 -2004) turn, with The ...
read moreIvo Perelman / Chad Fowler / Reggie Workman / Andrew Cyrille: Embracing the Unknown
by Mark Corroto
Let's explore the title of saxophonist Ivo Perelman's latest release, Embracing the Unknown. His quartet with fellow saxophonist Chad Fowler, plus jazz legends Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille embrace, or welcome, adopt, and maybe better stated, champion the unknown. This exercise in instant composing guides listeners through the mysterious, the new, the novel, the undiscovered, i.e. the unknown. But then again, doesn't every Ivo Perelman recording embrace the unknown? With his one hundred plus (and counting) discography, the ...
read moreAndrew Cyrille: Music Delivery / Percussion
by Mark Corroto
If Andrew Cyrille were a painter, he'd be Georges Seurat. If he were a poet, E. E. Cummings; a Tour de France Champion, Jacque Anqutiel; or a writer, Ian McEwan. The above masters are mentioned because Cyrille shares a command of colors, efficiency, grace, and language with his instrument equal to doyens in other disciplines. His solo outing Music Delivery / Percussion is not his first solo drums and percussion disc. He released What About? (BYG Records, 1960) and The ...
read moreAndrew Cyrille, Elliot Sharp, Richard Teitelbaum: Evocation
by Howard Mandel
Evocation is what all writing about music must be about and may be the mission of music itself. To create an impression, to summon a memory or tender a suggestion of presence using materials that are not substantially those of the endeavor's subject--isn't that the fundamental purpose of any art? Not to be pretentious or obscure the thing itself: It must be said that master drummer Andrew Cyrille, guitarist-reedist Elliott Sharp and Richard Teitelbaum, the pioneering electronic music ...
read moreAndrew Cyrille, William Parker, Enrico Rava: 2 Blues for Cecil
by Giuseppe Segala
È già stato detto molto, di questo album. Appuntamento al vertice di tre musicisti, che in momenti diversi hanno incrociato la personalità magmatica di Cecil Taylor e la sua musica. Andrew Cyrille, William Parker ed Enrico Rava, nell'ordine alfabetico in cui sono elencati dal disco, hanno dato vita al trio per la prima volta nel 2016, con un'esibizione al Whitney Museum di New York. Dopo un nuovo incontro in Francia, nel 2020, sono entrati in studio a Parigi ...
read moreECM 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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The Patriot Act
From: The Emerald DuetsBy Andrew Cyrille
Blues for Cecil No. 2
From: 2 Blues for CecilBy Andrew Cyrille
Lucero Mundo
From: Inside Rhythmic FallsBy Andrew Cyrille
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