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To call Sorey's compositional style "Feldman free jazz" is way too reductive, but it has a lingering truth-the soft and dissonant intervals, the stillness of the music certainly invokes the late work of that great composer, but there are additional layers of influence everywhere.
NewMusicBox 2010
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Long before Mr. Sorey developed his ideas in Brooklyn clubs, he was immersed in music while growing up in a housing project in Newark.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Saxophonist Steve Lehman, who plays in Fieldwork and has featured Mr. Sorey on his recordings, recalled handing him a stack of difficult music in 2003.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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As a drummer, Mr. Sorey shifts complex rhythms with offhand finesse.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Mr. Sorey entered William Paterson University as a trombonist studying classical music.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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He moved to his more customary drum set, having cued up a recording of "Rabbi Rubin's Mediation Court" from the Yiddish Radio Project archive: As the rabbi questioned a husband about domestic troubles, Mr. Sorey essentially played the conversation, translating English and Yiddish into rhythmic phrases.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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A week later, at Le Poisson Rouge, Mr. Sorey sat at his drums while a cellist and pianist completed each other's slowly morphing statements through the opening 16 minutes of his composition "For Kathy Change."
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Mr. Sorey soon joined in, displaying the skills that have made him an in-demand drummer.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Alan Nahigian Composer Tyshawn Sorey says his new CD shows 'a side that isn't known to many, except those who came to hear me in Brooklyn back in the day.'
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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During a recent solo engagement at the Stone, Tyshawn Sorey filled a trombone partly with water and then reveled in the liquid's gurgling effect.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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