“Good jazz drummers offer firm grounding for adventurous music. Great ones open up altogether fresh landscapes. Andrew Cyrille fits comfortably in the latter category.” – The Wall Street Journal
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"Spacey, bleepy abstract voyages, softly surging free-jazz, electronic storms that gather against deep organ chords meet tender guitar ballads and soft melodic ascents." - The Guardian
Breaking the Shell - Redhook Records, 2022
Breaking the Shell is an album from drummer Andrew Cyrille, guitarist Bill Frisell and pipe organist Kit Downes. This collaborative trio release showcases a unique and rarely heard combination of instruments – electric guitar with pipe organ, and drums. The result is a meditation on sonancy and an opportunity for three highly creative spirits to roam freely within an entirely new dimension.
Andrew Cyrille is a 2020 Doris Duke Artist
The Doris Duke Artist Awards invest in exemplary American artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theater and related interdisciplinary work who have demonstrated their artistic vitality and commitment to their field. The award is a deep investment in the potential of dedicated performing artists, empowering them through the freedom of unrestricted support to take creative risks, explore new ideas and pay for important professional and personal needs. Read more at The Doris Duke Foundation
Vision Festival 2019 Celebrates Andrew Cyrille in a Lifetime Achievement Event
Jazz Drum Great Andrew Cyrille Revels in Collaboration at Lifetime Achievement Show. During an eight-set marathon at New York's Vision Festival, the veteran percussionist reaffirmed his status as one of the world's most alert and thoughtful improvisers. Read More at RollingStone.com
Andrew Cyrille Solo
"The master of African-American rhythms, ‘making the real magic…the real rhythms…the real sounds…expanding his African/Haitian roots…surfing the drums for masterful lyrical snippets…a master of color…painting coloring riffing always stretchin’ searchin’ lookin’ for that next sound color sound!” Oliver Lake, The Real Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell, Wadada Leo Smith
Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music’s independent thinkers.
Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The great avant-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille – whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading the all-star collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman – makes his ECM leader debut with The Declaration of Musical Independence, featuring a quartet with guitar luminary Bill Frisell, keyboardist Richard Teitelbaum and bassist Ben Street.