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Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Cyrille


Andrew Charles Cyrille (born 10 November, 1939) is an avant-garde jazz drummer. Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St. John's University, but was already playing jazz in the evenings and switched his studies to the Juilliard School. He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in the mid-sixties for about 10 years and eventually went on to do drum duos with Milford Graves.
Andrew Charles Cyrille (born 10 November, 1939) is an avant-garde jazz drummer. Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St. John's University, but was already playing jazz in the evenings and switched his studies to the Juilliard School. He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in the mid-sixties for about 10 years and eventually went on to do drum duos with Milford Graves.

In addition to recording as a bandleader, he has recorded and/or performed with musicians like David Murray, Irène Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris and Reggie Workman among others. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..
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Mikko Inannen and Andrew Cyrille at iBeam. Cyrille just got down on the drum stool; Inannen is rocking the Krummhorn.
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The sax-drum duo has been done so much it is hard to surprise, thus Mikko Innanen & Andrew Cyrille at I-Beam engage with vocabulary overlap.
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