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Tyshawn Sorey
Multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is fast becoming a vital voice in New York City's creative music scene. Originally self-taught in composition, piano, trombone, and percussion, he has worked with many of the leading lights in the jazz/creative music scene of New York and Europe, including Misha Mengelberg, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Anthony Braxton, Werner Klausnitzer, among many others. He has composed works for solo piano, various chamber ensembles, and for his main working group, Oblique. Sorey is also a faculty member of the School for Improvisational Music, and at the New School University, teaching private instruction.
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| Koan (2009)
Six new compositions of rigor and open-form improvisation create sound worlds of intense power and hauntingly spare beauty
"There has been music very roughly comparable to this...but..." - The New York Times
"2009 Top Ten Jazz" - NPR Music |
More information...
Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds
Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now
Ten Questions With Tyshawn Sorey
Time Out New York
August 2009 at the Stone NYC curated by Tyshawn Sorey
Tyshawn Sorey at MySpace
All About Jazz New York
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