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UPCOMING MUSIC EVENT wexner center for the arts THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS Father John Misty Craig Taborn Trio ROUP G HE AGENCY T PHOTO COURTESY SUN, MAY 19 | 8 PM Performance Space After Fleet Foxes, Josh Tillman has “He confidently establishes reemerged with one of the year’s best himself here…every bit a albums, revealing the dark side of the match for the brightest California dream with echoes of Laurel moments of Fleet Foxes.” Canyon’s golden era. —Under the Radar $15 all audiences SAT, APR 27 | 8 PM Performance Space ON SALE NOW—TICKETS.WEXarts.ORG | (614) 292-3535 2012–13 PERFORMING ARTS SEASON PROGRAM PROGRAM NOTES Chants, the first release by the Craig Taborn Taborn has known Thomas Morgan since Craig Taborn Trio Trio, was recorded in June 2012 and produced the bassist was a teenage student at the by ECM Records’ Manfred Eicher. The Manhattan School of Music and has closely album marks out new musical ground, with followed his development. Taborn played its strikingly original compositions and with Morgan in saxophonist David Binney’s Craig Taborn ................... Piano inspired improvising. Just as his previous group, by which time Morgan was drawing album, Avenging Angel for ECM, subverted a lot of attention as the most interesting Thomas Morgan ����������������������������Bass expectations of solo improvised piano, Chants young bassists on the New York scene. finds its own response to the vast tradition Gerald Cleaver ��������������������������������drums of the piano trio. The pieces that Craig The trio’s music is complex; a sense of breath Taborn has written for his trio are set up to and a feeling of room to move remain in generate new group music by channelling the these pieces, even when layers of density particular skills of drummer Gerald Cleaver pile up. Intuition has a big role to play. As and bassist Thomas Morgan. For Taborn, the Taborn says, “To the extent that I’m open to personnel are the all-defining factor. “I knew the improvisational moment, I really try not that if I created a context and then deferred, to break the spell by over defining things. If fully, to Gerald’s and Thomas’s sensibilities it you’re going to have everybody play free then would inherently be stimulating and would you’re not a composer. But if you dictate the also challenge the context. I wanted to invite stylistic approach too narrowly, then you’re that challenge. I’d much rather engage with not using the potential of the players. If you the group, always, than have the format have strong improvisers—like Gerald and as piano adventures with supporting cast.” Thomas—and give them musical information, Morgan and Cleaver share the leader’s they will key in on that. To my mind the concern for compositional shape and question of ‘feel’ should be self-evident in the multilayered improvisational detail, as the material. If there is a question, it’s because music is pulled between the poles of density you intended there to be a question, and the and spaciousness, to dramatic and often improvisation is the answer.” thrilling effect. The trio has been together for eight years and has toured widely, but Taborn’s relationships with the drummer and bassist stretch back further still. Taborn and Gerald MAJOR SEASON SUPPORT LEAD SEASON MEDIA ACCOMMODATIONS Taking photographs, FOR PERFORMING ARTS SUPPORT Cleaver first played together twenty-five filming, or operating years ago when they were students at recording devices during the performance is the University of Michigan. Taborn and strictly prohibited. Cleaver made their ECM debuts together in 1997, when both were members of Roscoe Please turn off mobile Mitchell’s Note Factory, and they have GENERAL SUPPORT phones and other played together in many contexts since, FOR THE WEXNER CENTER electronic devices before including earlier incarnations of Taborn’s the performance. trio. Both pianist and drummer play in Michael Formanek’s quartet, an association documented on the ECM recordings The Rub and Spare Change and Small Places. COVER PHOTO: ©JOHN ROGERS/ECM RECORDS.