Andrew Cyrille & Lisa Sokolov | Vision Festival 24 (2 of 3)

Vision Festival 24 celebrated Andrew Cyrille’s legendary lifetime of achievement with an evening of performances featuring the drummer with musical associates spanning his 50+ year career. Cyrille appeared in duet with the vocalist Lisa Sokolov for one of the celebration’s eight performances. For the festival program, Sokolov recounted how she met Cyrille:
“I first met Andrew through Jeanne Lee. She would always refer to him as the Gentleman Andrew Cyrille. I loved that. But then I will never forget a fierce trio concert with Andrew, Milford Graves, and Don Moye. The fire that I literally saw blazing out of his eyes was yet another side of this elegant gentleman Andrew Cyrille.”
Filmed and recorded on June 11, 2019 for AFA’s Vision Festival 24 at Roulette, Brooklyn.
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Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York to Haitian immigrant parents. Cyrille’s Haitian background and participation in drum and bugle corps shaped his early musical development. He would soon begin playing with jazz masters like Coleman Hawkins and Mary Lou Williams, before beginning an 11 year tenure with Cecil Taylor from 1964 to 1975. Throughout his career he has committed to investigating the full timbral and melodic quality of the drums, resulting in a series of solo and collaborative percussion albums, including projects with Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Don Moye, and Kenny Clarke. A highly sought after collaborator for his vision and creative finesse, Cyrille has also worked extensively with dancers, poets, and visual artists. www.andrewcyri...
Lisa Sokolov is a frontline New York jazz vocalist, improviser and composer. Her work embraces the best of new music, free and straight ahead jazz. Her recordings angel Rodeo, Lazy Afternoon, Presence and A Quiet Thing have all received Best CD of the Year citations and press kudos. DownBeat magazine cites “Presence” as 5 stars “Masterpiece”, Best CD of the Year and made the DownBeat “Best of the Decade” list in 2010.
Arriving on the New York scene in 1977, Lisa began collaborating with bassist William Parker. This collaboration continues. These years included working in trio with singers Ellen Christie and Jeanne Lee. Lisa also was heard regularly with pianists Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb in the days of Studio Henry. Indeed over the years she has worked with many new music and jazz notables including Cecil Taylor, Rashid Ali, Badal Roy, Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser, Jimmy Lyons, Irene Schweitzer, Cameron Brown, Butch Morris, Gerry Hemingway, Blue “Gene” Tyranny, Hilton Ruiz, Mike Richmond, and Jim McNeely.
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Film production by Moon Lasso: moonlasso.com/
Sound by Stephen Schmidt.
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