Press
"The indefatigable risk taker." – The New Yorker
​"It seems like hyperbole to suggest that the trio of electric guitarist Bill Frisell, pipe organist Kit Downes, and drummer Andrew Cyrille have opened up a whole new sonic vista, but Breaking the Shell is truly unique. Rarely has any album been more meditative, and rarely, if ever, has this configuration of instruments been on record. " - Glide Magazine
"The scope of this jazz trio's terrific new album, "Two Centuries," resides in its opening track with drummer Andrew Cyrille sketching the rhythm, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith smearing the melody, and Qasim Naqvi...making his synthesizers hum in the general key of the universe." - The Washington Post, Top 10 Singles of 2022
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"Pretty Beauty" (LeBroBa) is JAZZIZ Critics’ Picks Playlist - "...songs we couldn't stop spinning": The Best Songs of 2019
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Jazz Drum Great Andrew Cyrille Revels in Collaboration at Lifetime Achievement Show - Rolling Stone
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Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba — master of rhythm and space - The Financial Times
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A History of Respect Connects Vijay Iyer and Trio 3 - The Post and Courier
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Andrew Cyrille Quartet With Bill Frisell Played Village Vanguard – BrooklynVegan
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Andrew Cyrille: An Aesthetic Endeavor – Modern Drummer
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Bright Moments With Andrew Cyrille – Jazz Times
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Andrew Cyrille on KCSM: Have You Heard Series – KCSM-FM Jazz 91.1​
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Andrew Cyrille's Late-Career Renaissance – New York Times
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Andrew Cyrille Quartet - The Declaration of Musical Independence Album Review: Elliptically Groovy – Irish Times
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Two New Records Showcase The Range Of Jazz Drummer Andrew Cyrille – NPR
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Andrew Cyrille and Bill McHenry: Proximity – PopMatters
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Open Studio: Andrew Cyrille – Whitney Museum of Art
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Andrew Cyrille: Haitian Fascination – NPR
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"All That's Rhythm!" A Chat With Drummer Andrew Cyrille – Washington City Paper
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Trio 3 Shows Off Its Jazz Avant-Garde Pedigree -- New York Times
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Harlem Speaks: Andrew Cyrille -- National Jazz Museum in Harlem
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Body and Soul: An Interview with Andrew Cyrille -- ImprovCommunity.ca
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Interview with Andrew Cyrille - INTAKT RECORDS​
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© Photo by Laurel Golio
Remembering Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)
By Andrew Cyrille
I met Cecil Taylor in 1958 through Ted Curson, the trumpet player from Philadelphia. It was at a rehearsal in Brooklyn that I was doing with another pianist, one of my colleagues from high school, Leslie Brathwaite. Ted and a saxophone player named Harold Owsley were walking by this place where I was rehearsing and they heard me and Lesley, so they came in to see what was going on. They stayed for a while and after we finished up, Ted said to me that he was going to go to Manhattan for a rehearsal with this pianist named Cecil Taylor. “You’ve never heard anyone play piano like him,” he told me.... Read more at NewMusicBox