Tyshawn Sorey

Tyshawn Sorey
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Background information
Born	(1980-07-08) July 8, 1980 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, classical, avant-garde jazz, avant-garde music
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instrument(s)	Drums, piano, trombone
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Pi, Firehouse 12, 482 Music
Website	tyshawnsorey.com

Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American drummer and composer.

His work has been reviewed in The Wire, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Modern Drummer and Down Beat. In August 2009, Sorey curated a month of performances at the Stone, a New York performance space owned by John Zorn. In 2012, he was selected as a composer for the Other Minds Festival.

Sorey grew up in Newark, New Jersey and attended Newark Arts High School. He holds a B.Music in jazz studies and performance from William Paterson University, an M.A. in composition from Wesleyan University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from Columbia University. In the fall of 2017, he joined the faculty at Wesleyan as Assistant Professor of Music. He was awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship.

Sorey has released several albums as a leader, including That/Not (Firehouse 12 Records, 2007), Koan (482 Music, 2009), Oblique (Pi, 2011), Alloy (Pi, 2014), The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi, 2016), Verisimilitude (Pi, 2017), and Pillars (Pi, 2018).

He has recorded or performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Steve Lehman, Joey Baron, Muhal Richard Abrams, Pete Robbins, Cory Smythe, Kris Davis, Vijay Iyer, Myra Melford, Dave Douglas, Butch Morris, and Sylvie Courvoisier.

Awards and honors

• 2016: DownBeat magazine: “25 for the Future”
• 2017: MacArthur Fellowship

Discography

As leader

• That/Not (Firehouse 12, 2007)
• Koan (482 Music, 2009)
• Oblique – I (Pi Recordings, 2011)
• Alloy (Pi Recordings, 2014)
• The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi Recordings, 2016)
• Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017)
• Pillars (Pi Recordings, 2018)

As co-leader

With Fieldwork

• Door (Pi Recordings, 2008)

With Paradoxical Frog

• Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed, 2010)
• Union (Clean Feed, 2012)

As sideman

With Samuel Blaser

• Pieces of Old Sky (2009)

With David Binney

• Lifted Land (2013)

With Anthony Braxton

• Trillium E (2011)

With Steve Coleman

• Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (2010)
• The Mancy of Sound (2011)

with Marilyn Crispell

• The Adornment of Time (Pi Recordings, 2019)

With Armen Donelian

• Leapfrog (2011)

With Alexandra Grimal

• Andromeda (2012)

With Henry Grimes, Roberto Pettinato and Dave Burrell

• Purity (2012)

With Vijay Iyer

• Blood Sutra (Artists House, 2003)
• Far From Over (ECM, 2017)

With Max Johnson

• Quartet (2012)

With Lauer Large

• Konstanz Suite (2009)

With Ingrid Laubrock

• Serpentines (2016)

With Steve Lehman

• Demian as Posthuman (2005)
• On Meaning (2007)
• Travail, Transformation and Flow (2009)
• Mise en Abîme (2014)

With Roscoe Mitchell

• Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin (Wide Hive, 2013)
• Bells for the South Side (ECM, 2017)

With Pascal Niggenkemper

• Pasàpas (2008)
• Urban Creatures (2010)

With Timuçin Şahin

• Bafa (2009)
• Inherence (2012)

With Samo Salamon

• Kei's Secret (2006)

With Som Sum Sam

• Beauty Under Construction (2005)

With Craig Taborn

• Flaga: Book of Angels Volume 27 (Tzadik, 2016) composed by John Zorn

With John Zorn

• In the Hall of Mirrors (Tzadik, 2014)
• Valentine's Day (Tzadik, 2014)
• Hen to Pan (Tzadik, 2015)

With Angelica Sanchez Trio

• Float the Edge (Clean Feed, 2017)

External links

• "Ten Questions with Tyshawn Sorey | Glowing Realm". Glowsinthedark.wordpress.com. 2009-05-05. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
• "Tyshawn Sorey on Composition As A Drummer". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-12-05.