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Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms.
Apr 1, 2024 · Cecil Taylor, American jazz musician and composer, among the leading free-style pianists. His mastery of improved form was unprecedented in jazz; he used an extensive repertoire of devices to develop simple material into dense, complex, extended, but structurally unified works.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 6, 2018 · April 6, 2018. Cecil Taylor, a pianist who challenged the jazz tradition that produced him and became one of the most bracing, rhapsodic, abstract and original improvisers of his time, died on...
- Ben Ratliff
Feb 14, 2022 · Previously unreleased, the relentless 88-minute track “Autumn/Parade” catches the inexhaustible Cecil Taylor Unit in the grip of one revelation after another, playing free jazz, a style of ...
- Alan Scherstuhl
Apr 6, 2018 · Pianist Cecil Taylor, a pioneer of free jazz and icon of the avant-garde for more than half a century, died Thursday evening at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 89. Taylor's legacy is his...
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- Tom Vitale
Apr 10, 2018 · The Deceptively Accessible Music of Cecil Taylor. The composer and free-jazz giant, who died Thursday at 89, has a reputation for making challenging music, but the reality is far less imposing....
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Apr 6, 2018 · Cecil Taylor, whose stunning and bravely unorthodox piano language made him one of the most important postwar American avant-gardists in any artistic medium, leaves more than a legacy of musical ...
