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Craig Taborn

Shadow Plays

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1 Bird Templars  
2 Discordia Concors  
3 Conspiracy Of Things  
4 Concordia Discors  
5 A Code With Spells  
6 Shadow Play  
7 Now In Hope  
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Ten years have passed since Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was released, bringing strikingly fresh ideas to the solo piano idiom.  "It reflects Mr Taborn's galactically-broad interests," said the New York Times, "along with his multifaceted technique," while the Guardian saluted Craig's "world of whispered, wide-spaced figures, ringing overtones, evaporating echoes and glowering contrapuntal cascades". In the interim Taborn has appeared in ECM contexts large and small.  We've heard him in his trio with Thomas Morgan and Gerald Cleaver on Chants and in his Daylight Ghosts quartet  with  Chris Speed, Chris Lightcap and Dave King.  He's played piano duets with Vijay Iyer on The Transitory Poems, performed Ches Smith's music on The Bell, contributed to Roscoe Mitchell's AACM tribute Bells for the South Side, and to Chris Potter's music for ensemble and strings on Imaginary Cities. Alongside all of these activities, the solo music has continued to gather strength.

  • Craig Taborn - Shadow Plays makes JazzTimes: Top 40 Jazz Albums of 2021
    Posted At: December 14, 2021
    Over the last decade, Craig Taborn has refined and developed his approach, attaining new high ground with Shadow Plays. For Craig the recording is "part of the same continuum as Avenging Angel. Where that was a studio recording, this one is live, but that process of spontaneous composition goes onward."  The new album is a stunning live recital from the Mozart-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus, where the ...

  • Craig Taborn chats about 'Shadow Plays' with Harmonious World
    Posted At: November 30, 2021

    Ten years have passed since Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was released, bringing strikingly fresh ideas to the solo piano idiom.  "It reflects Mr Taborn's galactically-broad interests," said the New York Times, "along with his multifaceted technique," while the Guardian saluted Craig's "world of whispered, wide-spaced figures, ringing overtones, evapor...

  • Craig Taborn - Shadow Plays makes 'jazzwise - 20 BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2021
    Posted At: November 25, 2021

    Ten years have passed since Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was released, bringing strikingly fresh ideas to the solo piano idiom.  "It reflects Mr Taborn's galactically-broad interests," said the New York Times, "along with his multifaceted technique," while the Guardian saluted Craig's "world of whispered, wide-spaced figures, ringing overtones, evapor...

  • Craig Taborn returns to the solo format on 'Shadow Plays' / JazzTimes
    Posted At: October 19, 2021
    JazzTimes - Martin Johnson writes…In 2011, two decades into a career defined by a wide array of settings and styles, mostly as a sideman and sometimes working on electric keyboards, pianist Craig Taborn released Avenging Angel, a stunning solo piano debut for ECM. During the next decade Taborn refined his style both in small groups as a leader and in piano duets with fellow trailblazers Kris Davis and Vijay...

  • As an artist, Craig Taborn stands on his own with 'Shadow Plays' / THE BIG TAKE OVER
    Posted At: October 8, 2021

    Ten years have passed since Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel album was released, bringing strikingly fresh ideas to the solo piano idiom. Over the last decade, Taborn has refined and developed his approach, attaining new high ground with Shadow Plays. For Craig the recording is "part of the same continuum as Avenging Angel. Where that was a studio recording, this one is live, but that process ...

  • Craig Taborn's 'Shadow Plays' is a sonic experience, expansive in scope and interior in scale / WBGO: Fall Preview 2021
    Posted At: September 12, 2021

    WBGO writes......Autumn is always harvest time for new music, and this season is no exception. More than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, musicians are going out on tour, and even back in the clubs (taking all due precautions). Festivals have set their sights on a triumphant return, welcoming audiences in person again. Through it all, the music endures, finding ways to deepen and thrive. ...
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