Cecil Taylor
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The Yardbirds, Cecil Taylor, It's a Beautiful Day: Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 24 May 1968
A Wide Range of New Sounds at the Fillmore ...
Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
CECIL TAYLOR'S appearance on Friday was reminiscent of nothing as much as Ornette Coleman's Croydon concert four years ago. ...
For Cecil Taylor, It's Just Beginning...
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
EMERGING FROM the stage door of the Odeon, Hammersmith after his triumphal Jazz Expo concert on Friday night, the diminutive figure of pianist Cecil Taylor ...
Cecil Taylor: Five Spot, New York, NY
Live Review by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, May 1975
QUINTESSENTIAL JAZZ club, even has patina of history: the perfect place for Cecil Taylor to express his music after a long hiatus. The small stage ...
Cecil Taylor: Ladies and gentlemen, please adjust your re-entry goggles
Profile and Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 7 June 1975
...CECIL TAYLOR has left the Stanford-Binet scale and is still climbing fast. The treble clusters are zipping into the stratosphere. The memory banks have blown. ...
Cecil Taylor: A Piano is an Orchestra
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 16 August 1975
...says CECIL TAYLOR, a controversial figure ever since he erupted at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 with his quartet, but even those who dislike ...
Overview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 5 October 1985
CECIL TAYLOR isn't easy listening, but he's unique in remaining committed to pushing back the boundaries of jazz at a time when his former contemporaries ...
Pianist Cecil Taylor Makes Poetry Of His Jazz
Profile and Interview by 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 ...
Cecil Taylor: Blue Light Special
Profile by Gene Santoro, Spin, May 1990
FOR THE uninitiated, a Cecil Taylor performance can be like sitting in the middle of a breaking tidal wave on a leaky rubber raft. He ...
Invisible Jukebox: Diamanda Galás
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, November 1996
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 18 June 2014
Record producer best known for his controversial posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix recordings ...
Cecil Taylor: Culture Spinach and Chaos Theory
Comment by Don Snowden, Rock's Backpages, April 2018
ONCE I DECIDED to write something on Cecil Taylor moving on to the next phase, I went back and counted the number of his albums ...
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