(Bio created by Rocco Stilo)
Baltimore's cornetist and trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum (1975), a pupil of Anthony Braxton, started his career in late 1990s, working also with Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor.
Then he recorded a series of collaborative albums, such as
Crawlspace-Universal Noir (october 1998),
with Bhob Rainey, Eric Rosenthal and Jack Wright;
and Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 (january 2002) with Anthony Braxton.
His career as leader started in april 2003, with the first recording sessions
for the project SpiderMonkey Strings, featuring cellist Okkyung Lee, vibraphonist Jay Hoggard, as well as Jessica Pavone on violin and viola among others.
They debuted with Other Stories (Three Suites) (february 2005).
True Events (march 2006),
Stepwise (may 2009) and Through Foundation (april 2012)
were
free improvisations with drummer Tomas Fujiwara.
The Convergence Quartet was formed with pianist Alexander Hawkins, bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Harris Eisenstadt. They debuted with the Live In Oxford (november 2006), followed by Song-Dance (may 2009), Slow And Steady (november 2011), and the more complex Owl Jacket (october 2013).
His sextet, comprising over the time trombonist Bill Lowe, violist Jessica Pavone, saxophonists Matt Bauder and Jim Hobbs, bassist Ken Filiano, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, debuted with The Middle Picture (recorded between october 2005 and december 2006), followed by Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (february 2008), the four-part suite Apparent Distance (premiered in august 2010), and Navigation (december 2012), collecting two lengthy suites. With this album his sextet became a septet, having added vibraphonist Chad Taylor.
In 2007 Bynum and percussionist and vocalist Abraham Gomez-Delgado founded
the ten-piece project Positive Catastrophe, which included, among others, Mark Taylor (french horn, mellophone), Matt Bauder (tenor and alto saxes, clarinet), Michael Attias (baritone sax), Pete Fitzpatrick (electric guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums). They released
Garabatos Volume One (august and september 2008) and Dibrujo Dibrujo Dibrujo... (november 2011).
PlusTet, a 15-piece ensemble including Nate Wooley and Stephanie Richards (trumpets), Vincent Chancey (French horn), Steve Swell (trombone), Bill Lowe (bass trombone, tub), the sax trio of Jim Hobbs, Ingrid Laubrock and Matt Bauder, Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jay Hoggard (vibraphone), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Ken Filiano (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), debuted with Enter The Plus Tet (january 2016), that contains the lengthy Sleeping Giant, a tribute to Prince.
The Thirteenth Assembly is a project with Jessica Pavone (viola) Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums).
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Benoit Delbecq (piano) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums) recorded The No-Nosed Puppet (november 2017).
9-tette, a project started in 2018 with
Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Bill Lowe (bass trombone, tuba), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Ken Filiano (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor and soprano saxes), Tomeka Reid (cello), and Stomu Takeishi (electric bass),
released The Ambiguity Manifesto (march 2018).
Credited to bassist John Hebert, Sounds Of Love (march 2013) documents a live performance by Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Tim Berne (alto sax), Fred Hersch (piano) and Ches Smith (drums & percussion).
The quartet of Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Joe Morris (guitar), Tomeka Reid (cello) and Kyoko Kitamura (voice) recorded the trilogy of Geometry Of Caves (december 2016), Geometry Of Distance (december 2018) and Geometry Of Trees (july 2021).
Geologic Time
(may 2023), containing the 15-minute Cambrian Explosion,
documents the trio of Taylor Ho Bynum (double-belled cornet, flugelhorn and p-bone mini), guitarist Joe Morris and double bassist and cellist Brad Barrett.
