Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer

RT @natechinen: Craig Taborn and Vijay Iyer. Not sure if you can tell, but they’re levitating. pic.twitter.com/9AoDZlnyWq

— Tony McGee (@mctony) March 25, 2019

Chris Potter

“The Wheel”
(Chris Potter)

Chris Potter - Tenor Saxophone
Adam Rogers music - Guitar
Craig Taborn - Fender... https://t.co/03OtRfW5ND

— Chris Potter (@chrispotterjazz) May 20, 2016

Jazz musician Craig Taborn to create dynamic experience ....

By Elizabeth Garabedian (garabedian.3@osu.edu)
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013
Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013 23:04

For Craig Taborn, jazz is more than just a style of music.

“For me, jazz describes a larger body of African-American creative music that engages with improvisation as a central means to creating music,” Taborn said in an email. “Excitingly, the music that has been made under the influence of jazz is wide-ranging and far-reaching … for me, it is more descriptive of an attitude and posture than a style.”

Taborn is a jazz musician and lead artist of his self-titled trio that features bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Gerald Cleaver. The group is set to perform Saturday at the Wexner Center for the Arts at 8 p.m., four days after the scheduled release of its latest album, “Chants,” which received a favorable review from the New York Times on Friday and is set to release Tuesday. 

A pianist since age 12, Taborn said he got his first synthesizer and began creating his own music that same year.

Courtesy of Jennifer Wray

“From the beginning, I found I was interested in making my own music and doing that often on the spur of the moment,” he said. “(I) was drawn to jazz because of the improvisation within it as well as the strong tradition of pianists.”

In 2007, Taborn was invited to play at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He said he met up there with Morgan and Cleaver to try out some music ideas, and shortly afterward, the group traveled to Europe to tour. 

Chuck Helm, director of performing arts at the Wexner Center, said the venue and discounted tickets are an attractive part of the upcoming performance.

Read more: http://www.thelantern.com/a-e/jazz-musician-craig-taborn-to-create-dynamic-experience-paint-pictures-with-performance-1.3033329#.UXha9JXhEhT

Craig Taborn speelt Untitled II/American Landscape tijdens live broadcast VPROJazzLive in het Bimhuis in Amsterdam op 6-3-2010. Craig Taborn - piano. Meer video's op vprojazzlive.radio6.nl

Craig Taborn Quintet: Live In Concert

by Patrick Jarenwattananon
Fearless keyboardist Craig Taborn, prolific on acoustic piano as well as electric pianos and synthesizers, has a gift: making experimental improvisation immediately enjoyable. For this, he has long backed many of the most forward-thinking improvisers on the planet, including James Carter, Tim Berne, Chris Potter and Dave Douglas.

He's so in-demand that he rarely gets the chance to perform as a leader of his own bands, despite a series of critically acclaimed recordings under his own name. Thursday presented a chance for him to demonstrate to a U.S. audience his compositional vision. As part of the CareFusion Jazz Festival New York, he presented a stellar new quintet at the Jazz Gallery, the intimate Manhattan venue where he has often appeared — but never under his own name.

WBGO and NPR Music hosted a live webcast of the Craig Taborn quintet online on this page. A downloadable recording will be made available here after the show.

Personnel:
Craig Taborn, piano
Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet
Chris Speed, reeds
Thomas Morgan, bass
Dan Weiss, drums http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/06/16/127893350/craig-taborn-concert



Craig Taborn speelt Untitled II/American Landscape tijdens live broadcast VPROJazzLive in het Bimhuis in Amsterdam op 6-3-2010. Craig Taborn - piano. Meer video's op vprojazzlive.radio6.nl