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Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) Abraham Gomez-Delgado (percussion, vocals) Kamala Sankaram (accordion, vocals) Mark Taylor (french horn) Reut Regev (trombone) Matt Bauder (tenor saxophone) Michael Attias (baritone saxophone) Pete Fitzpatrick (electric guitar) Alvaro Benavides (electric bass) Tomas Fujiwara (drums)
"Time was when the wide range of sources heard in the music of Positive Catastrophe had to fight for a place in jazz. Ethnic music (some of it in odd meters), rock and funk, literary art songs, and other influences from outside the jazz tradition have all elbowed their way into the music over the past few decades. It is the musical vocabulary that the young members of this 10-piece band co-led by brass player Taylor Ho Bynum and percussionist Abraham Gomez-Delgado grew up speaking. Do the noisy rock sonorit
"Combining the raw passion of Afro-Cuban rhythm with the intellectual intensity of free jazz, Positive Catastrophe transcends idiom.... With its exciting mélange of ingredi- ents, this genre-defying album contains sufficient amounts of improvisational rigor and enchanting harmonies to satisfy both adventurous and more-conventional listeners." – Jazziz