Andrew Cyrille

Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 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.

His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher and he had an early recording session with Coleman Hawkins. Trumpeter Ted Curson introduced him to pianist Cecil Taylor when Cyrille was 18.

He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in 1964 and stayed for about 10 years and eventually performed drum duos with Milford Graves. In addition to recording as a bandleader, he has recorded and/or performed with musicians such as David Murray, Irène Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris and Reggie Workman among others.

As leader

 * What About? (BYG Actuel, 1971)
 * Junction (Whynot Records, 1976)
 * Metamusicians' Stomp (Black Saint, 1978)
 * Nuba (Black Saint, 1979)
 * Special People (Soul Note, 1980)
 * The Navigator (Soul Note, 1982)
 * Irène Schweizer/Andrew Cyrille (Intakt, 1988)
 * Something in Return (Black Saint, 1991)
 * My Friend Louis (DIW/Columbia, 1992)
 * X Man (Soul Note, 1993) with James Newton, Anthony Cox)
 * Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu (Soul Note) with James Newton, Lisle Atkinson

As sideman
With Ahmed Abdul-Malik With Billy Bang With Anthony Braxton With Carla Bley With Marion Brown With Dave Burrell With John Carter With Charlie Haden With Coleman Hawkins With Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Leroy Jenkins With Oliver Lake With David Murray With Horace Tapscott With Cecil Taylor With Bob Thiele Collective
 * The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (New Jazz, 1961)
 * Sounds of Africa (New Jazz, 1961)
 * A Tribute to Stuff Smith (Soul Note, 1992)
 * Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions, 1989: For Warne Marsh (hatArt, 1989)
 * European Tour 1977 (ECM, 1978)
 * Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)
 * Daybreak (Gazell, 1989)
 * Expansion (High Two, 2004)
 * Castles of Ghana (Gramavision, 1985)
 * Dance of the Love Ghosts (Gramavision, 1986)
 * Fields (Gramavision, 1988)
 * Comin' On (hat Art, 1988)
 * Shadows on a Wall (Gramavision, 1989)
 * Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! Records, 1969)
 * The Hawk Relaxes (Moodsville, 1961)
 * The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM Records, 1968)
 * The Legend of Ai Glatson (Black Saint, 1978)
 * Edge-ing (Black Saint, 1993)
 * David Murray/James Newton Quintet (DIW Records, 1991)
 * The Dark Tree (hat Art, 1989)
 * Unit Structures (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Conquistador! (Blue Note, 1966)
 * Student Studies (BYG, 1966)
 * The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (1969)
 * Cecil Taylor Quartet in Europe (Jazz Connoisseur, 1969)
 * Akisakila (Trio (Japan), 1973)
 * Spring of Two Blue J's (Unit Core, 1973)
 * Incarnation (FMP, 1999)
 * Sunrise Sunset (1990)