Tyshawn Sorey

Drummer, pianist, composer, and educator Tyshawn Sorey is an expressive performer and recording artist whose work ranges from modern creative jazz and vanguard classical works to experimental rock. His keen ear balances a restrained approach using sparse, intimate, interconnected textures and tonalities with a desire for dissonant, noisy, frictional interplay. He introduced it on That/Not in 2007, alternately adding and subtracting elements with each subsequent album. The Inner Spectrum of Variables, a double disc from 2016, used an unconventional string quartet to explore Sor...