Free improvisation reaches its apex when performers evoke the feeling of a composition. The music isn’t written in advance, but the players communicate in a … Read More “Brad Barrett/Joe Morris/Tyshawn Sorey: Cowboy Transfiguration (Fundacja Sluchaj)”
You know you’re at the Big Ears Festival when Nathan Bowles, banjo and bones player for the old-time string band the Black Twig Pickers, enthusiastically … Read More “Live Review: Big Ears 2018”
Let no one think that Tyshawn Sorey’s use of a piano-bass-drums trio on Verisimilitude, his sixth album (and one of his strongest), brings it closer … Read More “Tyshawn Sorey: Verisimilitude (Pi)”
In addition to being a drummer able to handle the jagged musical terrain of Vijay Iyer, Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey continues to … Read More “Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy”
Mike Shanley reviews drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s latest, ‘Oblique – I’
While the commanding drummer Tyshawn Sorey has been known for his mathematical and muscular intensity in settings with Steve Coleman, Fieldwork, Steve Lehman and other … Read More “Kris Davis/Ingrid Laubrock/Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog”
Josef Woodard reviews adventurous festival in Germany
