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Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) [1] [2] [3] was an American pianist and poet. [4] [5] 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.
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.
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Apr 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 Thursday at his...
- Ben Ratliff
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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Apr 10, 2018 · A portrait of the American free-jazz musician, poet, and composer Cecil Taylor as he plays piano in his home, in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, on October 8, 1995. Photograph by Jack ...
Apr 6, 2018 · A classic Cecil Taylor moment occurred at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 1978. That summer, the iconoclastic pianist – who died Thursday at the age of 89 – performed for Jimmy Carter at the White...
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Apr 6, 2018 · Cecil Taylor died on Thursday, at the age of eighty-nine. Of all the jazz musicians who wrought definitive, revolutionary changes in music in the late nineteen-fifties and early...
