This Nearly Was Mine

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  Cecil Taylor
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  The World of Cecil Taylor
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  This Nearly Was Mine

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 f

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