Andrew Cyrille Quartet

The Navigator

Soul Note 121062-2

Item: full_album_8024709066725_CD

Artists :
Nick Di Geronimo ( Bass )
Sonelius Smith ( Piano )
Ted Dariel ( Trumpet )
Release date
Dec 31, 1983
Duration
0:42:42
Barcode
8024709066725
Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 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
His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher and he had an early recording session with Coleman Hawkins.Trumpeter Ted Curson introduced him to pianist Cecil Taylor when Cyrille was 18.
He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in 1964 and stayed for about 10 years and eventually performed drum duos with Milford Graves. In addition to recording as a bandleader, he has recorded and/or performed with musicians such as David Murray, Irène Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris and Reggie Workman among others.