Hanah Jon Taylor & Hamid Drake Duo

Art in the cafe...

John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hanah Jon Taylor emerges as one of the most inspiring musicians on the contemporary music scene today. A native of Chicago, Taylor has received the critical acclaim of audiences and media throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia Minor. His unique and lyrical persona on flute, saxophones, and wind synthesizer has warranted him as a true innovator of improvisation.

Hamid Drake incorporates Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion instruments and influence, in addition to using the standard trap set, Drake has collaborated extensively with top free jazz improvisers Peter Brotzmann, Fred Anderson, and Ken Vandermark, among others. Since the late 1990s, Hamid Drake is widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in improvised music.

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