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- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
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Avant-garde reedist Chris Speed grows into tradition
With the trio he brings to the Jazz Festival, formed decades into his career, he treads the ground of the old masters without losing himself.
- Music, Concert Preview Mar 22, 2018
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Reedist Chris Speed digs into his deep jazz roots with Bad Plus drummer Dave King and bassist Chris Tordini
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2017
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With his nimble trio, Chris Speed proves he can embrace jazz tradition as well as he’s tweaked it
Reedist Chris Speed partners with drummer Dave King and bassist Chris Tordini on the recent Platinum on Tap, the most thoughtful, beautiful, and straightforward album of his career.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2017
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Tyshawn Sorey’s compositional imagination blossoms on his new trio album Verisimilitude
The musician recently started his assistant professorship at Wesleyan University, filling the chair previously occupied by Anthony Braxton.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 22, 2016
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The ten best jazz records of 2016
The cream of this year’s crop includes a large-ensemble concept album about conspiracy theories, a tug-of-war between loops and live-band grooves, and an amazing hybrid of jazz and hip-hop.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2016
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Tyshawn Sorey achieves the sublime on the new album The Inner Spectrum of Variables
Drummer Tyshawn Sorey—who's also one of jazz's most promising composers—plays tonight at Constellation with pianist Vijay Iyer.
- Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2016
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German saxophonist Angelika Niescier catches up with her New York friends
On the terrific new NYC Five, saxophonist Angelika Niescier and German pianist Florian Weber team up with three strong players from the Big Apple.
- Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2014
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Chris Speed extends the lineage of the saxophone trio
The New York saxophonist taps into the tradition with drummer Dave King and bassist Chris Tordini.