Dartmouth Events

Presented by the music department Music Now! concert series and the Hopkins Center for the Arts

Taylor Ho Bynum’s JAK4

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

For the first time in five years, since the release of his critically-acclaimed 2019 recording The Ambiguity Manifesto (Firehouse 12 Records), Taylor Ho Bynum leads a band on the road for a week of concerts throughout New England which will kick off with a performance at Dartmouth and culminate in a live recording of this new all-acoustic improvising quartet at Firehouse 12 in New Haven at the end of the week.

The Dartmouth performance will also feature the Coast CherryAhCole Combo, the exploratory offshoot of the Coast Jazz Orchestra under Bynum’s direction, performing a short opening set and a closing collaboration with the guest artists. 

Featuring a new cast of deeply creative artists and an unusual instrumentation of subtle timbres and sonic possibility, THB’s JAK4 offers a contemplative and organic approach to creative music making, freely blending the composed and the spontaneous, maximizing the individual agency of the performers while in service to the collective sound.

In addition to the live quartet recording that will be made on the tour’s final concert, Bynum and harpist Jacqueline Kerrod’s debut album as a collaborative duo, Simple Ways Such Self, will be released on Orenda Records on May 3, 2024, and will be available at these performances.