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Reassessing some free jazz drummers

  • June 20, 2022
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There was a period of about five years where I was listening to a lot of early free jazz— Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp. Ornette (and his circle) is the only one […]

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Daily best music in the world: Andrew Cyrille with Grachan Moncur III

  • May 23, 2015
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Just a nice track from a record I’ve never heard, by Moncur, a famous trombonist, with Andrew Cyrille on the drums:

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DBMITW: Cecil Taylor

  • April 29, 2012
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Here’s another old free jazz favorite from my LP stacks. Andrew Cyrille is on drums. And the title (CONQUISTADOR!) has an exclamation point, which I like.

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Andrew Cyrille interview by Ted Panken

  • March 11, 2011
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Here’s another in my series of choice, drummer-relevant bits of other people’s interviews, this time with Andrew Cyrille, by Ted Panken: Ted Panken: Are there different challenges for you in dealing with, let’s say, the […]

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