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30 de abr. de 2024 · Cecil Taylor, a pianist who fashioned his music from myriad styles and sources, died yesterday in New York. He was 89. From his earliest recordings in the mid-1950s with bassist Buell Nieidlinger, drummer Dennis Charles and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, Taylor pursued daring and swam upstream against jazz orthodoxy.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Anyone unfamiliar with Taylor's work is advised to forget everything they have read about it before listening to Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 First Visit. Everything except Taylor's own famous description of the piano as "eighty-eight tuned drums." This is the key to appreciating his music.
14 de may. de 2024 · Originally released in 1973.Originally recorded on November 30th, 1966.All rights go to Cecil Taylor and whoever happens to own his output these days. I own ...
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30 de abr. de 2024 · Iconoclastic pianist Cecil Taylor, inspired by Thelonious Monk, who created music with angular melodies and dissonances that never comfortably sat within the jazz mainstream, started...
10 de may. de 2024 · February 9, 1980 I. 00:00. 24:06. Over the weekend of Feb. 8-9th, 1980, the Cecil Taylor Unit rolled into Fat Tuesday’s, a jazz club at 190 Third Avenue in Manhattan. Four sets were recorded over the weekend by Swiss producer Werner X. Uehlinger, probably some four hours of music. The next year, one of these sets was released by Uehlinger’s ...
30 de abr. de 2024 · Documenting the evolution of Cecil Taylor is an undertaking that is way beyond the pay grade of most listeners. Just as in the study of homo sapiens (yes, us) where there is no critical moment (the missing link) that we can definitely pinpoint where our ancestors established language, art and importantly, abstract thought, Taylor's music can be thought of in similar terms.
2 de may. de 2024 · Among his best-known works are “Well, You Needn’t,” “I Mean You,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Criss-Cross,” “Mysterioso,” “Epistrophy,” “Blue Monk,” and “ ’Round Midnight.” He influenced the flavour of much modern jazz, notably the work of George Russell, Randy Weston, and Cecil Taylor.
