Monday, August 31As part of The Highline Piano Series life simply does not submit itself to the ordinary rules of program biography. Some facts: he was born in Long Island City in 1933. It is recorded that in his early years, the artists he admired included Fats Waller, Erroll Garner, and especially, Bud Powell. His mother grew up in New Jersey and was a childhood friend of Sonny Greer. Therefo...
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"Always a Pleasure"Cecil Taylor Ensemble 1996 Free Music ProductionsRecorded April 8, 1993 in BerlinPersonnel :Cecil Taylor (p) Longineu Parsons (t) Harri Sjostrom (ss) Charles Gayle (ts) Tristan Honsinger (clo) Sirone (b) Rashid Bakr (d)After a classical education at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, the New Englander moved to Amsterdam and founded the Instant Composer Pool (ICP) with "Han ...
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Here's the kind of solo piano playing that Cecil Taylor could engage in by 1981.He starts very meditatively, singing along with his lines. By about the third minute he's playing very wild stuff. If you've never seen him before, he's astounding to watch.
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By time pianist Cecil Taylor recorded in the mid 1960's, he no longer improvised on popular tunes. By my reckoning, this performance of Richard Rodgers' "This Nearly Was Mine" in 1960 for Nat Hentoff's Candid Records was his next to last recording of a standard tune. After he recorded "What's New" in a live recording at the Cafe Monmartre in 1962, he mostly relied on structures that he invente...
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"Always a Pleasure"Cecil Taylor Ensemble 1996 Free Music ProductionsRecorded April 8, 1993 in BerlinPersonnel :Cecil Taylor (p) Longineu Parsons (t) Harri Sjostrom (ss) Charles Gayle (ts) Tristan Honsinger (clo) Sirone (b) Rashid Bakr (d)After a classical education at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, the New Englander moved to Amsterdam and founded the Instant Composer Pool (ICP) with "Han ...
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Cecil Taylori don't have an airport extreme thing hooked up here at work, and i really would rather listen to music on a stereo than a computer.currently rocking this cecil taylor / louis moholo album "remembrance" on the FMP label, from an astounding set of albums taylor made during a week in 1988 at a festival dedicated to him. they came out in a box set too but i've never seen it so i've jus...
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Monday, August 31As part of The Highline Piano Series life simply does not submit itself to the ordinary rules of program biography. Some facts: he was born in Long Island City in 1933. It is recorded that in his early years, the artists he admired included Fats Waller, Erroll Garner, and especially, Bud Powell. His mother grew up in New Jersey and was a childhood friend of Sonny Greer. Therefo...
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