Results tagged “Cecil Taylor” from Jazz Beyond Jazz

 

Word is only 475 copies of the lp will be sold -- details on that at Triple Point Records.

Taylor's music at the piano, with the piano, was crystal clear. From a few measures of score he drew from a folder and propped within view but didn't further glance at, Taylor launched improvisations of impeccable and highly nuanced touch, complicated harmony and organic, balanced structures. His phrases often began as simple gestures or a few carefully selected notes, then stretched out with the evenness of breathing into full investigations and transformations of the nascent idea. And he has many, many ideas, demonstrating the infinite ways tones can be arranged, reflected, expressed to conjure beauty in spheres that transcend "mere" music to speak of movement, architecture, strength, delicacy, suppleness and nuance. As a listener I found myself (again!) suspended between awed appreciation of his art and floods of my own internal impresssions, including insights into my fleeting thought processes.

He has earned significant critical acclaim --

"...Cecil Taylor wants you to feel what he feels, to move at his speed, to look where he looks, always inward. His music asks more than other music, but it gives more than it asks." - Whitney Balliett