I'd listened to a record with him and Tim Berne after seeing he had a
credit on the Innerzone Orchestra album - the Tim Berne duo (or trio -
can't remember) wasn't particularly electronic but was very nice, lyrical
free jazz. Taborn is obviously an extremely gifted player.
That NYT piece was really good and it also lead me to Junk Magic, which
exceeded my expectations. Hyper-intelligent is right - really rewarding
harmonically and the electronics programming was adventerous. I'd like to
check out more of the Thirsty Ear series - seems like this sort of
idm/dance/jazz/hip hop fusion stuff got a push with some interesting people
involved like El-P, Spring Heel Jack, Matthew Shipp etc.
There's a lot of good jazz related music coming out with electronics, but
more on an "experimental" tip by way of musique concrete/EAI and not
rhythmic programming/dance related. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't think of
anyone doing that right now...
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 12 lines I always feel ignorant when I discover music that I should have known
> I always feel ignorant when I discover music that I should have known
> about for years. Craig Taborn is a jazz pianist who rated a long piece in
> the New York Times last week (link below) and it turns out he is a longtime
> synthesizer lover, and he made an album 11 years ago (!) called "Junk
> Magic" which is nothing if not hyper-intelligent dance music.
>
> https://open.spotify.com/album/6YFRoF4ZfN8P93Oj5AAWUS
>
> The Times article:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/magazine/the-ethereal-
> genius-of-craig-taborn.html
>