Craig Taborn, piano
Celebrated for his visionary improvisations bordering on jazz and contemporary classical music, and hailed by The New York Times as “one of the best jazz pianists alive,” Craig Taborn makes his White Plains debut in this fully improvised solo piano concert. Taborn has played and recorded with countless luminaries in the fields of jazz, improvised music, new music, and electronic music including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis and many others.
A partnership between ArtsWestchester, the City of White Plains and the White Plains BID, JazzFest has become a signature White Plains event presenting free and affordable jazz experiences to jazz enthusiasts from Westchester and beyond. JazzFest White Plains is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Montefiore Einstein, and additional sponsors detailed here: https://artswestchester.org/programs/jazzfest-whiteplains
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Craig Taborn has been performing piano and electronic music in the jazz, improvisational, and creative music scene for over twenty five years. He has experience composing for and performing in a wide variety of situations including jazz, new music, electronic, rock, noise and avant garde contexts.
Taborn has played and recorded with many luminaries in the fields of jazz, improvised, new music and electronic music including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Lester Bowie, Dave Holland, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Evan Parker, Steve Coleman, David Torn, Chris Potter, William Parker, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Susie Ibarra, Ikue Mori, Carl Craig, Dave Douglas, Meat Beat Manifesto, Dan Weiss, Chris Lightcap, Gerald Cleaver, and Rudresh Manhathappa.
Taborn is currently occupied creating and performing music for solo piano performance (Avenging Angel), piano trio (Craig Taborn Trio), an electronic project (Junk Magic), the Daylight Ghosts Quartet, a piano/drums/electronics duo with Dave King (Heroic Enthusiasts) and a new trio with Tomeka Reid and Ches Smith as well as piano duo collaborations with Vijay Iyer (The Transitory Poems), Kris Davis (Octopus) and Cory Smythe. He is also a member of the instrumental electronic art-pop group Golden Valley is Now and performs frequently on solo electronics.
His conceptual work 60 x Sixty is now available worldwide, for free at 60xSixty.com
Craig lives in Brooklyn.