Biography
Andrew Charles Cyrille (born 10 November, 1939) is an avant-garde jazz drummer.
Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York into a family with a mother from Haiti. He began studying science at St. John's University, but was already playing jazz in the evenings and switched his studies to the Juilliard School.
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He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in the mid-sixties for about 10 years and eventually went on to do drum duos with Milford Graves. In addition to recording as a bandleader, he has recorded and/or performed with musicians like David Murray, Irène Schweizer, Anthony Braxton, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris and Reggie Workman among others.
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