Festival 2011
Associazione Culturale Crosscurrent, ExB & Akamu are proud to announce the third edition of Crosscurrent international contemporary jazz festival @ (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City from 9th to 11th September 2011. Crosscurrent 3 relies on cultural sponsorship by Anthony Braxton’s TriCentric Foundation, RAI Radio 3 (third channel of italian national public radio), SIdMA (Italian Society of Afroamerican Musicology) and the Municipality of Brescia (Crosscurrent hometown). The festival, in previous editions, has counted on the presence of major international artists as William Parker, Amiri Baraka, Anthony Davis, James Emery, Fabrizio Puglisi, Hamid Drake, Corey Wilkes, Dinamitri Jazz Folklore to name but a few. At last we’re finally ready to show the definitive lineup listed below.
Friday, September 9th
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| 7:00 p.m. | Wayne Horvitz New Quartet (World Premiere) |
| 8:30 p.m. | Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet |
Saturday, September 10th
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| 7:00 p.m. | Dave Burrell, Michael Formanek & Steve Swell (Burrell 71st birthday special project) |
| 8:30 p.m. | Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin |
Sunday, September 11th
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| 6:00 p.m. | Joe McPhee |
| 7:00 p.m. | Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet |
| 9:00 p.m. | Defunkt Millenium |
| 11:00 p.m. | Tyshawn Sorey: “For Kathy Change” |
TAYLOR HO BYNUM SEXTET
Sunday, September 11th, 7:00 p.m.
| Taylor Ho Bynum | cornet, brass & composition |
| Jim Hobbs | alto sax |
| Bill Lowe | trombone & tuba |
| Mary Halvorson | electric guitar |
| Michael Formanek | bass |
| Tomas Fujiwara | drums |
Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments, composer, bandleader and interdisciplinary collaborator with artists in dance, film and theater. For the past five years, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet has been Bynum’s primary working ensemble, releasing two albums and performing throughout the world, including headlining performances at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz Em Agosto (Portugal), Taktlos Festival (Switzerland), Kerava Festival (Finland), and the Vision Festival (NYC). The group’s 2007 debut, The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12 Records), was called “the shape of jazz to come” (Philip Clark, The Wire, UK), and “a measured, highly intelligent project that points the way forward for jazz as the decade wanes… four stars” (Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings). The 2008 follow-up, Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (hatOLOGY Records) was similarly critically acclaimed, described as “a momentous and altogether brilliant album” (Chris May, AllAboutJazz.com), “one of the essential ensembles in modern jazz… five stars” (Thierry Lepin, Jazzman Magazine, France). The iteration of the sextet presented at Crosscurrent 3 adds Jim Hobbs (alto saxophone), Bill Lowe (bass trombone), and special guest Michael Formanek (bass), to the core trio of the leader’s cornet with Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums). The ensemble brings together some of the finest musicians from the Boston and New York scenes, demonstrating a remarkable diversity of backgrounds and generations, with members of the group born in every decade from the ‘50s to the ‘80s. Bynum received a 2010 New Jazz Works Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to write a book of original compositions for the sextet, which was premiered in NYC, Boston, and at the Saalfelden Festival in August 2010.
Related discography
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - The Middle Picture (Firehouse 12, 2007)
Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet - Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (hatOLOGY Records, 2008)
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Sextet in Santiago de Compostela