"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 ...
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...
