Live
Archive
This
page contains free MP3 downloads of unreleased live recordings
from the past ten years. While none of these tracks ever found
their way to a commercial CD, and the recording quality varies,
they all represent some musical moment that still makes me happy.
Feel free to copy and share these tracks.
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Look
Below (7:54)
At a gig in Montreal, bassist Richard Giddens,
an old friend of Tomas', joined my trio and fit in quickly. A
piece dedicated to my friend and mentor Bill Lowe (get it?).
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recorded
December 6, 2007, composed by THB
performed by the Taylor Ho Bynum Quartet:
THB - cornet
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
Richard Giddens - acoustic bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
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recorded
November 14, 2007, composed by THB
performed by Positive Catastrophe
featuring:
THB - cornet
Abraham Gomez-Delgado - percussion, voice
Jen Shyu - voice
Mark Taylor - french horn, mellophone
Reut Regev - trombone
Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone
Michael Attias - baritone saxophone
Evan O'Reilly - electric guitar
Keith Witty - acoustic bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
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Azzurri
per Lester (6:25)
Mary and I were doing some gigs in Italy, and
this concert in Bologna was our first meeting with the wonderful
bassist Antonio Borgini, forming a trio that will hopefully play
again soon.
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recorded
October 28, 2007, composed by THB
performed by:
THB - cornet
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
Antonio Borgini - acoustic bass
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recorded
February 27, 2007, composed by THB/TF
performed by Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara
featuring:
THB - cornet
TF - drums
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whYeXplicities
(22:27)
The first studio recording of my Sextet is out
now, but this is a new extended composition written for the
group, from a particularly inspired live performance.
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recorded
February 22, 2006, composed by THB
performed by the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet
featuring:
THB - cornet
Matt Bauder - tenor saxophone, clarinets
Jessica Pavone - viola, electric bass
Mary Halvorson - electric guitar
Evan O'Reilly - electric guitar
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
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recorded
March 25, 2005, composed by THB/KKO/OtherTet
performed by OtherTet
featuring:
THB -cornet, flugelhorn
Bill Lowe - bass trombone
Joe Morris -
acoustic bass
Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng - drums, percussion
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The
Butterfly Effect (6:23)
From
the first SpiderMonkey Strings concert, at the Artstuff festival
in Boston. It was also my birthday. This piece evolved into the
music for the film The First Three Lives of Stuart Hornsley
that is on the Other Stories CD.
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recorded
August 22, 2002, composed by THB
performed
by Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings
featuring:
THB - cornet
Jason Kao Hwang - violin
Jean Cook - violin
Stephanie Griffin - viola
Okkyung Lee - cello
Pete Fitzpatrick - electric guitar
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Meditation
(9:17)
This
composition appears on Other Stories with SpiderMonkey
Strings, but I've always also loved this earlier version, from
a Boston concert honoring Miles Davis' 75th birthday, with a fierce
solo by the incomparable Jim Hobbs.
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recorded
May 31, 2001, composed by THB
performed
by Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Stories
featuring:
THB - trumpet
Bill Lowe - bass trombone, tuba
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Pete Fitzpatrick - electric guitar
Nate McBride - acoustic bass
Guillermo E. Brown - drums
Abraham Gomez-Delgado - percussion
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Blues
for Lester (12:17)
Dedicated
to the great Lester Bowie, this performance comes from the Boston
Asian-American Jazz Festival in 2000.
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recorded
September 15, 2000, composed by THB
performed
by the Taylor Ho Bynum 4tet
featuring:
THB - trumpet
Bill Lowe - bass trombone, tuba
Timo Shanko - acoustic bass
Syd Smart - drums
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4AB
(15:10)
This
piece was recorded at the Tri-Centric Music Festival in New York
City in 1998, where I had the great honor of Anthony Braxton joining
my ensemble as a guest soloist on this conducted improvisation.
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recorded September
25, 1998, composed by THB
featuring:
THB - trumpet, flugelhorn, conduction
Guillermo E. Brown - turntables, electronics
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
Steve Lehman - alto saxophone
Giles Miller - flutes, electronics
Evan O'Reilly - electric guitar
Chris Pistorino - acoustic bass
Eric Ronick - piano, keyboards
and special guest:
Anthony Braxton - f-alto saxophone
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Dreamsketch
(13:24)
This
is from one of the first Paradigm Shift concerts, a wonderful
improvising brass ensemble that played together for many years.
With an amazing tuba solo by Joseph Daley.
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recorded
March 15, 1998, composed by THB
performed
by Paradigm Shift
featuring:
THB - trumpet, flugelhorn
Stephen Haynes - trumpet, cornet
Bill Lowe - bass trombone, tuba
Joseph Daley - tuba
Syd Smart - drums
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recorded
October 19, 1997, composed by THB
performed
by Taylor Ho Bynum & Mumbo Jumbo Music
featuring:
THB - trumpet
Evan O'Reilly -alto saxophone
Jane Wang - acoustic bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
additionally on Mingus on a Stamp:
Chris Jonas - soprano saxophone
Richard McGhee III - soprano saxophone, flute
Giles Miller - alto saxophone
Steve Lehman - baritone saxophone
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