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Andrew Cyrille
Sign in to saveAmerican avant-garde jazz drummer
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1939-11-10
avant-garde jazzfree jazzjazz
Discography
- What About?1969
- Dialogue of the Drums1974
- Junction1977
- The Loop1978
- Nuba1979
- Special People1981
- Life Rays1982
- The Navigator1983
- Pieces of Time1984
- Paintings1987
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Andrew Charles Cyrille (born 10 November, 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. He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in the mid-sixties for about 10 years and eventually went on to do drum duos with Milford Graves. In addition to recording as a bandleader <a href="https://www.l
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Student of
- Philly Joe Jones
- Genre
- avant-garde jazz
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- ECM Records
- Official website
- www.andrewcyrille.com
- Image
- Andrew Cyrille.jpg
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- Andrew Cyrille
- date of birth
- 1939-11-10
- ethnic group
- Haitian Americans
- birth name
- Andrew Charles Cyrille
- name in native language
- Andrew Cyrille
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