Andrew Cyrille

Biography

American avant-garde jazz drummer and bandleader, born 10 November 1939 in Brooklyn, New York. Andrew Cyrille spent about eleven years from 1964 with *Cecil Taylor*, then led his own groups on albums including 'Special People' and 'The News', co-founded Trio 3 with *Oliver Lake* and *Reggie Workman*, and treated the drum kit as a full compositional instrument in a career spanning more than six decades of recordings.