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Pianist Cecil Taylor Makes Poetry Of His Jazz

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1987

"GREAT MUSICIANS are more than musicians – they are poets and spiritual forces," said pianist Cecil Taylor. "It is the sensitivity and the concept of the person playing that is most important to me."

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