Tag: Craig Taborn

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From the very outset, much of Craig Taborn's defining work as a bandleader has come with a trio. After a handful of outings with the saxophonist James Carter's band while still at university, his leader debut called quite simply Craig Taborn Trio was a proleptic exploration of his emerging interests which he put together in some spare studio time...

In the best way the borders feel ever more porous when it comes to contemporary jazz. Beyond the infusion of Latin American and West African rhythms or European chamber music into martial airs, piano rags and hard blues grooves - aspects of jazz which are scarcely modes but for many decades now constitutional parts of the form - it...