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Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. Along with Ornette Coleman, he is now generally acknowledged to be one of the innovators sources of free jazz.
Cecil Taylor Links
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hypem.com
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www.shef.ac.uk
Discography of Cecil Taylor
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www.webmutations.com
Cecil Taylor Online Sessionography
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www.fmp-label.de
The FMP releases
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www.mattweston.com
The Shape of Jazz to Come
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openvault.wgbh.org
"Cecil Taylor interview"
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wings.buffalo.edu
being matter ignited...
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www.furious.com
Cecil Taylor
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www.sfbg.com
Innovation, improvisation
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www.allaboutjazz.com
Mr. Taylor's Filibuster
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www.allaboutjazz.com
A Fireside Chat With Cecil Taylor
Moggers' favorites by Cecil Taylor
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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.... MORE
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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 invented for himself. You've got to hear how gently Cecil starts with a gentle r... MORE
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Always a Pleasure
Cecil Taylor Ensemble
1996
Free Music Productions
Recorded April 8, 1993 in Berlin
Personnel:
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 with Han Bennink.
He has been a steady presence o... MORE
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Cecil Taylor i 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 just accumulated the ones that i could over time, duos and trios with ... MORE
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