Craig Taborn

Craig Taborn is an American pianist, keyboardist and composer, born in Minneapolis in 1970 and based in Brooklyn. He works across jazz, contemporary composition, electronic music and free improvisation, as soloist, bandleader and sideman. He toured and recorded with James Carter in the 1990s and has made his own albums for ECM since the solo Avenging Angel (2011). He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2025. Taborn studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor while playing with Carter, starting with JC on the Set.