Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn; Jacqueline Kerrod - harp; Allison Burik - bass clarinet; Ken Filiano - bass

Taylor Ho Bynum returns to his old stomping grounds of New Haven and home-base at Firehouse 12 with a brand-new quartet, featuring an exceptional cast of musicians and an all-acoustic instrumentation of cornet, harp, bass clarinet and bass for some deep sonic vibrations.

Taylor Ho Bynum is a musician, teacher, and writer. His expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer and conductor, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over 20 recordings as a bandleader and over 100 as a sideperson. Bynum has worked with legendary figures such as Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor and enjoys playing in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq and Mary Halvorson) and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in groups led by Fujiwara, Reid, Jim Hobbs, Bill Lowe, Bill Cole, and William Parker, among others. His writings on music have been published in The New Yorker, The Baffler, Point of Departure and Sound American.

Photo by Ben DeFlorio