Tyshawn Sorey
Tyshawn Sorey ( born July 8, 1980 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American jazz musician (drums, piano, composition ) and music educator.
Biography
Sorey grew up in Newark, and studied at William Paterson University and Wesleyan University, u a. with Anthony Braxton and Jay Hoggard. Since the early 2000s he has been active in the New York jazz scene and worked as a music teacher at the School for Improvisational Music and the New School. Besides his own projects Sorey played with Steve Lehman ( Demian as Posthuman, 2005), the trio Fieldwork with Steve Lehman and Vijay Iyer, with in Dave Douglas ' Nomad ensemble and in the Steve Coleman band Five Elements, further in trio Pete Robbins and Mario Pavone, in Interstellar Duo # 2 with the flutist Ras Moshe and with Niescier and John Lauer. In 2007 he released his debut album, the double CD That / Not. Trained as a classical trombonist he also gives solo concerts on the piano and has worked for various ensembles as a composer. He also performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Misha Mengelberg, Anthony Braxton, Pascal Niggenkemper, Timuçin Şahin and Vijay Iyer.
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- Child Real Eyes ( Vidatone Records, 2002) with Andre Vida and Anthony Braxton
- Blood Sutra (Pi Recordings, Pi901, 2003) with Vijay Iyer
- Juncture (Pi Recordings, Pi12, 2003)
- Configuration ( Silkheart Records, SHCD 155, 2004) with Billy Bang and Sirone
- Beauty Under Construction ( nexus Records, KCD 5162, 2005) with Werner Klausnitzer
- Demian as Posthuman (Pi Recordings, 2005) with Steve Lehman
- Conspiracy for Positivity ( Blue Ark Records, 2005) with Radam Schwartz
- Fieldwork: Door ( Pi Recordings, Pi26, 2007) with Vijay Iyer and Steve Lehman
- Conduction / Induction ( Rai Trade, 09, 2007), Butch Morris
- On Meaning ( Pi Recordings, Pi25, 2007) with Steve Lehman
- That / Not ( Firehouse 12 Records FH12 -04-02-005, 2007) with Thomas Morgan
- Between Shadow and Space ( Clean Feed Records, 2008) with Michael Meanwhile
- Modes Of Limited Transcendence ( Simp Records, 080 901, 2008) with Gene Ess
- Pasàpas ( nexus Records, KCD 5214, 2008) with Pascal Niggenkemper Trio
- Do The Hate Laugh Shimmy ( Frash Sound Records, FSNT313, 2008) with Pete Robbins
- The Winding Shell ( Off Records, 013, 2009) with Jesse Elder
- Koan (482 Music, 482-1069, 2009)
- Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi Recordings, 2009) with Steve Lehman
- " Harvesting Semblances and Affinities " (Pi Recordings, Pi33, 2010) with Steve Coleman and Five Elements
- Antagonistic Androgeni ( Ruby Flower Records, 2010) with Biagio Coppa
- Paradoxical Frog ( Clean Feed, 183, 2010) with Kris Davis and Ingrid Laubrock
- Constance Suite ( Jazz Workshop, 087, 2010) with John Lauer
- Silent Z Live: Hate Laugh Music ( 2010) with Pete Robbins
- Urban Creatures ( JazzHausMusik, JHM188, 2010) with Pascal Niggenkemper Trio
- Oblique -1 (Pi Recordings, 2011)