Free event to anyone attending any of our five Fringe event
TROMPE is
• Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet
• Je4 Song – cello
• Daniel Lin – cello
Taylor Ho Bynum has spent his career navigating the intersections between structure and
improvisation—through musical composition, performance and interdisciplinary
collaboration, and through teaching, writing, production and organizing. Bynum's
expressionistic playing on cornet and his expansive vision as composer have garnered him
critical attention on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and dozens more as a
sideman. His varied endeavors include his Acoustic Bicycle Tours (where he travels to
concerts solely by bike across thousands of miles) and his stewardship of Anthony
Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation (which he served as executive director from 2010-2018,
producing and performing on many major Braxton projects, including two operas and
multiple festivals). Bynum has worked with other legendary figures such as Bill Dixon,
Cecil Taylor, and Wadada Leo Smith and maintains current collaborative projects with
artists like Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson and Tomeka Reid, among others. Bynum's
writing has been published in the New Yorker, Point of Departure and Sound American, and
he has served as a panelist, board member and consultant for leading arts organizations
and individual artists.
Je4 Song (he/him) is a musician, composer, actor, visual artist and New England
Foundation for the Arts grant recipient. He received his BA in Anthropology from Boston
University, and his MM from the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with
Ran Blake and Joe Maneri, among others. Fluent in a variety of musical languages, Je4 has
been active in improvised and experimental music, jazz, rock, and Americana for over 30
years. Primarily a bass guitarist and cellist, he has also performed and recorded on guitar,
piano, oud, and kayagum. Je4 has performed at music festivals around the globe and
appears on over a dozen recordings - his original music featured on radio, television, and
the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. As touring bassist for Ute Lemper, he performed at
the Montreux Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, L’Opéra de Vichy, and The Palermo
Festival Di Verdura. Je4 has also composed original music for theater productions in
Boston, Baltimore, and Washington DC. www.je4reysong.comDaniel Lin (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary improviser, composer, and memory worker.
Daniel Lin is active in jazz and Black Creative Music communities, most recently performing
with Bill Cole, Taylor Ho Bynum, Ras Moshe, Warren Smith, Bill Lowe, Tomeka Reid,
Alexander Hawkins, Joseph Daley, Althea SullyCole, Je4 Song, and Eli Hecht. His practice
emphasizes collective improvisation and deep listening, drawing inspiration from the
music’s histories of liberation, social justice, and radical organization and solidarities. Now
based in Baltimore, MD, he spends his time playing/composing music, acting/music
directing for theater, and working in libraries/archives.