{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Light Made Lighter | type = studio | artist = Craig Taborn | cover = Light_made_lighter_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 2001 | recorded = October 2001 | venue = | studio = The Studio, New York City | genre = Jazz | length = 40:34 | label = Thirsty Ear | producer = Matthew Shipp | chronology = Craig Taborn | prev_title = Craig Taborn Trio | prev_year = 1994 | next_title = Junk Magic | next_year = 2004 }}
'''''Light Made Lighter''''' is the second album by American jazz pianist Craig Taborn, which was released in 2001 on Thirsty Ear's Blue Series.
==Recording and reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }}
The album was recorded in October 2001.<ref name="Penguin Guide" />
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "This is one of the best records in Thirsty Ear's 'Blue' series thus far, and, more importantly, it reveals to American audiences what a monster Taborn really is as a pianist."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Jurek|first=Thom|class=album|id=mw0000015287|title=Craig Taborn – ''Light Made Lighter'': Review|accessdate=August 3, 2015}}</ref> ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' says "There are hints of nursery rhyme and calipso on the opening track which suggest a certain personal resonance, and which inevitably recalls some of Andrew Hill's Caribbean stuff, but elsewhere the tone is more sombre."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|orig-date = |edition = 8th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0141034017|pages = 1372}}</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Craig Taborn except as indicated'' # "Bodies We Came Out Of" – 4:57 # "St. Ride" – 2:03 # "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green) – 3:09 # "Crocodile" – 6:44 # "Light Made Lighter" – 5:24 # "Whiskey Warm" – 2:57 # "Morning Creatures" – 2:26 # "St. Ranglehold" – 2:56 # "American Landscape" – 4:22 # "Light Made Lighter - Piano" – 1:57 # "Bodies We Came Out Of - Part two" – 3:39
==Personnel== *Craig Taborn – piano *Chris Lightcap – bass *Gerald Cleaver - drums
==References== {{reflist}} {{Craig Taborn}} {{Authority control}}
Category:2001 albums Category:Craig Taborn albums Category:Thirsty Ear Recordings albums