Links to Articles/interviews:
Hartford Advocate, January ’13
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November ’12
JazzTimes, October ’12
Jazziz, Spring ’12
Boston Globe, December ’11
City Arts, May ’11
WNPR’s Where We Live, September ’10
The Hartford Courant, August ’10
The Jazz Session, June ’10
All About Jazz Italy, February ’10
Citizen Jazz (France), December ’09
NZZ Online (Germany), May ’09
Wall Street Journal, April ’09
TomaJazz (Spain), March ’09
WNYC’s Ear to Ear, December ’08
All About Jazz, April ’07
Boston Globe, July ’06
El Intruso (Argentina), May ’06
All About Jazz, March ’03

Press Quotes:
(click on author for link to full article)

“One of the most brilliant of the new third millennial masters of his generation.”
Anthony Braxton, in an interview with Bill Beuttler, The Boston Globe

“Mr. Bynum, 36, is a provocateur in the guise of a consensus builder, too polite to suggest a firebrand and too generous to resemble an ideologue. But he has a strong vision regardless and has patterned his creative life after some of the least compromising American musicians of the last half-century: the pianist Cecil Taylor, with whom he has performed; the trumpeter Bill Dixon, whose late-career work he championed; and especially the multireedist Anthony Braxton, whom he serves as chief consigliere. The history of jazz’s post-1960s avant-garde has been a tactile experience for him.”
Nate Chinen, The New York Times

“The most remarkable trumpet player at the moment is without a doubt Taylor Ho Bynum…a jazz musician in the best Armstrong tradition: if the trumpet or the cornet don’t sing, something’s wrong. But of course the man chooses a contemporary idiom and a soundpalet of the 21st century.”
Didier Wijnants, De Morgen (Belgium)

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
Groucho Marx, Duck Soup

“With a vast sonic vocabulary, blessed with soaring lyricism, fearlessly forward looking yet with a hotline to gut bucket primitivism, Bynum, still in his early 30s, is already a singular and thrilling artist.”
Chris May, AllAboutJazz.com

“A lungful of quick-witted growls, squeals, guffaws, and other transient bursts of sound make Bynum’s playing as animated as a vintage Loony Tune…one of the most exciting figures in jazz’s new power generation.”
Steve Dollar, Time Out Chicago

“Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum is, hands down, one of the most important and interesting musicians of his generation.”
Florence Wetzel, The Squid’s Ear

“Whether they’re lines that swirl upward, chasing their own tail, or lines that spill downward, like a Slinky on a staircase, the elemental motifs of the cornetist/composer’s pieces are full of springy kinetics. But they’re more than mere nu-jazz puzzles. Bynum wrings emotion from his crew. His use of texture and trajectory has to do with his appreciation of passion.”
Jim Macnie, Village Voice

“Bynum is a quick-witted and virtuosic player, steeped in the flutters, growls and extended techniques associated with the late Bill Dixon, the tunefulness of Don Cherry and bluesy humor of Lester Bowie.”
 David Adler, City Arts

“Splicing the slurs and bluesy elisions of the earliest jazz brass players into the spiky phrasing and rhythm-pattern conundrums of contemporary music.”
John Fordham, The Guardian (UK)

“Bynum’s horn playing is consistently delightful. He moves fluidly between elaborate, piquant figures, salty rasps and plaintive laments.”
Bill Meyer, Downbeat Magazine

“The great solo of the evening belonged to trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum…the trumpet was mainlined to the pianist’s right hand, and, it seems, figured out its logic for a moment, and, in that moment, launched into full discourse with the master, filling in the spaces HE was leaving. Cecil seemed at first unaware of the challenge, perhaps being used to such challenges falling away, but when Bynum persisted, the master engaged fully and practically began to glow.”
Review of Cecil Taylor Big Band, James Beaudreau, One Final Note

“With his infinitely expressive range on tone colors – slurs, whinnies, growls, and bright open horn – and daunting technique, Bynum is our Bubber Miley.”
Jon Garelick, The Boston Phoenix

“Many musicians who study and perform with reedist and composer Anthony Braxton end up defined by the association, but cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum has escaped the master’s shadow. There was never any doubting Bynum’s technical excellence, but on a number of recent recordings he’s proved he has his own ideas, and they’re good ones.”
Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

“He is one of those once-in-a-lifetime talents who can play everything and always sound like himself. Remarkable technique, inventiveness, energy…Bynum can really “talk” with that horn of his and the tunes he’s written are mad genius.”
Robin D.G. Kelley, seeingblack.com

“Amidst the ongoing anniversary celebrations for the AACM, along comes one of the organization’s leading spiritual progeny. Trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum shares the group’s divided fidelities between free improvisation and modern composition…(and) has managed to keep pace with his mentor, Anthony Braxton, on duet and group outings.”
Shaun Brady, Philadelphia City Weekly

“One of the savviest trumpeters to come along in recent years, a growling sound-and-space man in the tradition of Lester Bowie.”
Francis Davis, The Village Voice

“Taylor Ho Bynum seems committed to defying those for whom music needs to be neatly compartmentalized…sure to intrigue those unafraid to have their music travel to unexplored places and use less than conventional instrumental combinations to get there.”
John Kelman, All About Jazz

“Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum has made a name for himself in the bands of maverick leaders such as Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton, but lately he’s been turning heads leading his own spry, subtle units…His keen ear and extensive repertoire of brass techniques both vintage and cutting-edge allow him to move comfortably between sophisticated and playful settings.”
Time Out New York

“Here’s a rare thing: a musician, aware of the expansive possibilities of jazz, who also swings…Bynum’s bristling trumpet transmits the bravura of radical jazz, yet offers perfectly construsted solos.”
Mike Butler, Newcastle Metro (UK)

“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… Now you tell me what you know.”
Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers