like nobody else
Anthony Braxton (1945-, reeds, composition) with Dan Peck (tuba), Taylor Ho Bynum (brass), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jacqui Kerrod (harp), Shelly Burgon (harp), Adam Matlock (accordion, aerophones), “Composition No. 409,” live, New Haven (Connecticut), 2017
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton ZIM Sextet (AB [1945-], reeds, compositions; Taylor Ho Bynum, brass; Ingrid Laubrock, reeds; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jacqueline Kerrod, harp; et al.), live, Moers (Germany), 2017
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton Accelerator Ghost Trance Septet (AB, 1945-, reeds, composition; Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet, bugle, trombone; Jessica Pavone, violin, viola; Chris Dahlgren, bass, viola da gamba; Aaron Siegel, drums, percussion, vibraphone; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Jay Rozen, tuba), “Composition #358,” live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2008
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary, Oak Brook)
This I could listen to for a long time—it breathes.
Tyshawn Sorey Quartet (TS, percussion, composition; Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet; Aaron Stewart, tenor saxophone; John Escreet, piano), “Acts,” live, Amsterdam, published 2010
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
3 x 2 x X = ?
Tomas Fujiwara (drums, composition) with Gerald Cleaver (drums), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Ralph Alessi (trumpet), “Blueberry Eyes,” live (studio), New Haven, Conn., 2017
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random sights
yesterday, Forest Park, Ill.
like nobody else
Anthony Braxton Accelerator Ghost Trance Septet (AB, reeds, composition; Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet, flugelhorn; Jessica Pavone, viola; Chris Dahlberg, bass, cello; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Jay Rozen, tuba; Aaron Siegel, drums, percussion, vibraphone), live, Spain (San Sebastian), 2008
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random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Forest Park)
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random thoughts
Aging criminal-defense lawyer’s retirement plan: drop dead at my desk.
sounds of New York
Taylor Ho Bynum’s Rank Sentimentalist (THB, cornet; Marika Hughes, cello; Evan Patrick, guitar; Stomu Takeiship, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), “Black Lake” (Bjork), New York, 10/7/16
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2ⁿ
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) & Tomas Fujiwara (drums), live, New York 2014
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art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
sounds of Chicago
Mike Reed’s People, Places & Things (MR, drums; Jason Roebke, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Tim Haldeman, tenor saxophone), “Wilbur’s Tune,” live, Paris, 2010
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Mike Reed’s Myth/Science Assembly (MR, drums; Tomas Fujiwara, drums; Josh Abrams, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Ingrid Laubrock, tenor saxophone; Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone; Nick Butcher, electronics), live (rearranging a found Sun Ra fragment [excerpt]), Chicago (Chicago Jazz Festival), 2011
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Mike Reed’s Loose Assembly (MR, drums; Josh Abrams, bass; Greg Ward, alto saxophone; Tomeka Reid, cello; Jason Adasiewicz, vibraphone), live (studio performance), Chicago, c. 2009
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If other Chicago musicians are “busy,” what’s Mike Reed? In addition to leading various groups, he owns and operates Constellation, a performing arts center. Then there’s the Pitchfork Music Festival, which this summer will feature, over the course of three days, Beck, Giorgio Moroder, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, et al. He books and produces it.
Labels are often worse than useless. This guy, for instance, is often tagged as “cerebral.” But here’s something you can’t—I can’t, anyway—listen to without smiling.
Anthony Braxton, Composition No. 58
Taylor Ho Bynum Chicago Big Band,* live, 2009, Chicago
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Here’s another take—Braxton’s original recording (The Complete Arista Recordings of Anthony Braxton [Mosaic], rec. 1976).
More? Here.
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reading table
To obtain the value
of a sound, a movement,
measure from zero.***
A sound has no legs to stand on.
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The world is teeming: anything can
happen.—John Cage, “2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance” (excerpts)
*Taylor Ho Bynum & Josh Berman (cor), Jaimie Branch (tpt), Jeb Bishop & Nick Broste (tb), Nicole Mitchell (fl), Caroline Davis, Keefe Jackson & Dave Rempis (saxes), Jeff Parker (g), Jason Adasiewicz (vib), Nate McBride (b), Tim Daisy & Tomas Fujiwara (d)
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