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	Cecil Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cecil Percival Taylor (born in New York City March 15, 1930) is an American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman).
		Taylor is known for being an extremely energetic, physical yet subtle player, producing exceedingly complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms.
		Taylor played and recorded heavily with alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons from 1961 until Lyons' death in 1986, along with drummers Sunny Murray and then Andrew Cyrille.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cecil_Taylor (755 words)

	U B U W E B :: Fred Moten on Cecil Taylor
		In reading, Cecil's performance-the prefatory dance, the gestures at the instrument that produce/emit sound-along with his sound-independent, though it is, of the reduction of the word to verbal assertion -are too easily subordinated to the visual/spatial and the pervasive ocularcentrism, structured around a set of obsolete temporal, ethical, and aesthetic determinations, which ground it.
		Cecil's is a voice in the interruption of race and nation, just as it is a voice in the interruption of the sentence and, indeed, in the interruption of the word itself.
		Cecil's concern with precisely these registers is certainly a constitutive feature of his improvisation through the determinations of the dominant understanding of that synthesis.
	www.ubu.com /papers/moten.html (5898 words)

	Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In mathematics, the Taylor series are a way to represent any function in power series.
		In economics, when in a monetary policy a Taylor rule is followed, the interest rate changes correspond to deviations of output and inflation from their target levels.
		Taylor Rain is an American pornographic film actress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taylor (311 words)

	The Jazzine - Biographies: Cecil Taylor
		Playing with Cecil Taylor immediately put me into the offensive mode." Taylor himself once said that "Technique is a weapon to do whatever must be done." Cecil has been on the "offensive" since the 1950's and he's finally winning the battle.
		Cecil Taylor was born in Long Island City in March (15 or 25) of 1929.
		Cecil has said he liked to hear his father sing "shouts and things that go back farther than the blues." From the age of five Cecil studied piano, and even percussion with a classical tutor.
	www.jazzine.com /jazzstuff/biographies/cecil_taylor.phtml (1084 words)

	The Music of Cecil Taylor 1955-1990 #1
		For myself, my total conversion to Cecil's music came during a series of live performances back in the mid-70s; I was able to hear a brief rehearsal by the Unit, followed by a 'seminar' where the group took questions from an audience; then I heard several club sets later the same week.
		Taylor made two recordings in 1968 which are difficult to find.
		Most of the material is Williams', sort of a 'trip through the history of jazz'; Taylor, however, transforms the material in a way that superficially may not always seem 'appropriate', and the overall effect is not often that of the two pianists playing 'together'.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/damonshort/cecil01.htm (2626 words)

	Cecil Taylor
		From Jazz Advance, which Taylor issued on his own Transition label in 1956, to the new FMP trio release, Celebrated Blazons, Taylor has made enemies of polite conventions, standard operating procedures, received opinions and discouraging words.
		Taylor's favourites in his own constituency of fl free jazz (or at least the music that has developed out of what was called fl free jazz during the 60s) include Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Butch Morris, Reggie Workman, William Parker, Charles Gayle.
		Taylor refers to those musicians who had an early or long and profound influence on his work as "my nurturers", and goes on to cite Benny Goodman's pianist and arranger Mary Lou Williams, arranger Gil Evans and percussionist Max Roach, with whom he recorded the 1979 Historic Concerts (recently reissued on Soul Note).
	www.thewire.co.uk /archive/interviews/cecil_taylor.html (2194 words)

	MTV.com - Cecil Taylor
		Soon after he first emerged in the mid-'50s, pianist Cecil Taylor was the most advanced improviser in jazz; five decades later he is still the most radical.
		In 1964, Taylor was one of the founders of the Jazz Composer's Guild and, in 1968, he was featured on a record by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.
		Taylor started incorporating some of his eccentric poetry into his performances and, unlike most musicians, he has not mellowed with age.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/taylor_cecil/bio.jhtml (548 words)

	Cecil Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		In his first Boston-area visit since 1990, Taylor and his new trio -- with bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jackson Krall -- were as difficult, confrontational, and uncompromising as any Taylor outfit.
		At 68, Taylor is a founding father of avant-garde jazz.
		Taylor has always stressed the transcendental and spiritual qualities of his music.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/97/09/11/CECIL_TAYLOR.html (783 words)

	HyperMusic -- History of Jazz: Cecil Taylor
		Cecil Taylor began piano lessons at age 5.
		Taylor was a big Duke Ellington fan and had read that Ellington believed the next generation of jazz musicians would need to be "conservatory trained." As with Ornette Coleman, Taylor's abilities received high critical acclaim, but the public-at-large was not very supportive of his music.
		Cecil Taylor has been known to play the piano so percussively that piano keys have broken off and flown through the air during his performances.
	www.hypermusic.ca /jazz/taylor.html (137 words)

	Cecil Taylor MP3 Downloads - Cecil Taylor Music Downloads - Cecil Taylor Music Videos
		Taylor's language is not all private (though some of the sounds executed as words are clearly part of a highly individualized iconography); many of the words and syntactical structures he uses are recognizable as Western in shape and origin.
		And Taylor is making a new history in his poetics: one that comes from pre-Babylonian Egypt and extends into the centuries beyond this one, one that insists in communicating in a language that is only dotted with references to Western culture and its ideologies as a jumping-off point in both directions simultaneously.
		Taylor has gone where few have gone before him, let alone succeeded; this is what he is used to.
	www.mp3.com /albums/130005/summary.html (627 words)

	Cecil Taylor Biography
		Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15, 1929) is a pianist (and poet) now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman).
		Taylor is known for being an extremely energetic, physical player, producing exceedingly complex improvised sounds.
		Due to Taylor's unique and personal approach to music, he has rarely recorded as a sideman, preferring to lead his own groups and recording sessions.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Taylor_Cecil.html (159 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Gary Giddins conversation on pianist Cecil Taylor
		Taylor is almost like a tabula rasa in the sense that listeners read into him whatever they happen to know about music.
		Taylor and Sonny Rollins are among the few musicians that I need a fix of at least once a year.
		Taylor has these cascades that he plays, arpeggios and bounding bass lines that are all part of his language.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/cecil_taylor.html (6556 words)

	Cecil Taylor : Conquistador (Bonus Track) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This recording from 1966 is the very album that should have made Cecil Taylor the superstar of free jazz.
		Taylor's understanding of the bottom end in improvised music has never been celebrated properly and never has it been so clearly on display as it is here.
		Taylor sets the pace but gives license to his rhythm section, allowing them opportunities for color, tension, and dynamic inside his propulsion of notes and chord voicings.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2856284,00.html (414 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Cecil Taylor *
		Taylor lights the fuse for the program prior to that with a brief prefatory poem before deferring to Maneri’s sliding tonal squiggles.
		Taylor reappears, this time plucking his piano strings like a zither and creating a sparse complement to Maneri’s ruminative patterns.
		Taylor deals in epicurean detail too, but often tempered through a churning funnel of kinetic energy, chordal clusters swirling in torrents like layers of surf whipped to froth in a tsunami.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1427 (719 words)

	Cecil Taylor -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Taylor attended the New York College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music but was influenced more decisively by the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Horace Silver.
		British statesman Robert Cecil was a longtime member of Parliament and one of the principal draftsmen of the Covenant of the League of Nations.
		Cecil received the first Woodrow Wilson peace prize in 1924 and was awarded the 1937 Nobel...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001904 (714 words)

	Amazon.com: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come: Music: Cecil Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Taylor and Murray seem to finally be within grasp of a reorientation of the rhythmic basis of jazz--discovering how it may be "free" and yet full of rhythm and swing.
		Cecil Taylor is one of the great jazz pianists, and all creative improvisors need to deal with his music.
		Cecil Taylor has been one of the single most iconoclastic instrumentalists of out time and remains to be a VERY controversial figure in music after forty years of performing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001Z3V?v=glance (1487 words)

	Jazz Epiphany: Cecil Taylor
		Steve Lacy (who worked with Taylor from 1953-1959) in his article "View From the Brink", says "There are two different kinds of jazz: offensive and defensive...
		By the mid 1950's Taylor was leading his own small groups with musicians Buell Niedlinger, Steve Lacy, and Archie Shepp.
		Taylor, along with Bill Dixon, was one of the organizers of the Jazz Composers' Guild in 1964-65.
	www.jazzinternet.com /artists/cecil_taylor.htm (1120 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Cecil Taylor Ensemble * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Taylor starts reciting, his words nearly unintelligible in the cavernous acoustics of the recital hall.
		Soloists are sporadic and Taylor devotes the majority of the middle canvas to florid splashes of ensemble texture and tincture, relayed at high speed.
		Suddenly the horns subside and the Taylor is left alone with scribbling strings of Honsinger and Duval.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/630 (993 words)

	Cecil Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		A radical figure whose place in jazz is somewhat akin to John Cage's in classical music, Taylor incorporates dance and poetry into his performances, flirting with shamanistic, stream-of-consciousness utterances and impromptu movement that finds him shaking his graying dreadlocks while he prances in gym sweats.
		Taylor suffered for his art in the 1960s, his dues-paying days as a dishwasher duly noted by writer A.B. Spellman in his celebrated book Four Lives in the Bebop Business.
		Decades on, Taylor was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." A 1988 festival in Berlin, commemorated by an astounding 11-CD box set on the German label FMP, cemented his Olympian status in performances with a flock of European improvisers.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/c/x/cxl46/jazz/CecilT.htm (395 words)

	an interview with Cecil Taylor
		Pianist-composer Cecil Taylor is internationally known for the brilliance and audacious beauty of his music.
		Taylor: Well, actually, you know teachers--I ran into a lot of teachers where it was very clear to me that if you didn't do what they told you to do, they would try to stop you from doing anything at all.
		Taylor: What I am saying is two things: because mother insisted that I do certain things, there was a seed so that when it was left up to me to find certain things, the richness of these other poetical universes I had already had reference to.
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/authors/funkhouser/ceciltaylor.html (9972 words)

	Cecil Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		By the early 1960s, Taylor was off on his own voyage after a period as a sideman for various and familiar names, such as Johnny Hodges and Hot Lips Page.
		The influence of Taylor's associations with Albert Ayler and early Archie Shepp are especially vivid in his style, and his performances, they tell me, can run to marathon lengths, a journey that potentially can takes its toll on both Taylor and his audiences.
		Unfortunately, Taylor's recordings are scattered among a legion of small labels, so it is difficult to find his work, even in urban centers where your local music shop is inclined to do special orders.
	www.skyjazz.com /commentaries/taylor.htm (633 words)

	Howard Mandel, Jazz Critic - Jazz Writing - Cecil Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		At 71, Taylor has a physical intensity that would be the envy of an athlete of 20 -- indeed, he's best known for his power and stamina, for ferocious attacks on the piano as a representative and conveyance of convention.
		It was a delight to meet Taylor on his own terms, whether or not I caught all his references and narrative connections.
		Taylor was unimaginably articulate all over the ivories, almost stripping off the keys with his hyperfast fingerwork, simply the manifestation of completely impassioned being.
	www.howardmandel.com /CTaylor.php3 (2691 words)

	Music of Cecil Taylor 1955-1990 #2
		Bakr's textures are comparatively lighter than previous Taylor drummers; this set also marks the beginning of Parker's collaboration with Taylor which continues to the present.
		For those who would prefer to sample Cecil in a "smaller dose", this is well worth seeking out (for the other artists as well, of course).
		Lyons was a near-indispensible part of Taylor's ensemble music for well over 20 years; it would seem an impossible task to replace him, and in fact there have been few editions of the Unit since that even include a wind player.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/damonshort/cecil02.htm (1688 words)

	Cecil Taylor recieves a wink
		Tonight, the Taylor fingers were quarreling vociferously and more or less amiably, as usual, one bunch going up the keys, the other going down, both hands playing at once.
		Their owner would admonish them from time to time with a veiled reference to reality, and then they would start banging, as if to emphasize that no one was going to tell them what to do.
		It was from the piano that the poetry emerged, and it spoke dramatically, as Cecil Taylor always does, of some deep, mysterious and permanent understanding of that thing we call music.
	www.tonyspage.com /St._Cecilia_winks.htm (881 words)

	Cecil Taylor/Part I
		The "mythic representation" Taylor explores has broad parameters there is an attempt to allow large-scale cultural influences to exist in his work without attempting to subsume them under a totalitarian structure; they are to emerge on their own, through the individuality of the players.
		Yet this "mythic representation" Taylor postulates is not a form of musical anarchy, as his music is often incorrectly presumed to be.
		Cecil himself called for "a boycott by Negro musicians of all jazz clubs in the United States.
	users.lmi.net /~mgheart/thesis/part1.html (4657 words)

	Cecil Taylor
		One of the most enduring and uncompromising figures of the jazz avant-garde, Cecil Taylor is one few musicians that has managed to largely move beyond his influences and create a new style unique to himself.
		By 1956 Taylor was living as a professional musician in New York, releasing his first recording Jazz Advance in the summer of that year.
		During the early 60s, Taylor was forced to find work overseas (particularly in Scandinavia) just to survive, and most of his early career was spent in poverty.
	www.nndb.com /people/962/000044830 (369 words)

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		On this double LP recorded live in Paris, pianist Cecil Taylor, altoist Jimmy Lyons, and drummer Andrew Cyrille perform an unrelenting 110 minute set." The correct date is: 11/30/1966.
		For me, there is sometimes the impression of an inspired wizard and his five disciples conversing at midnight, chewing over ideas, rephrasing them, listening; at other times I'm attracted to the cathartic, exquisitely controlled violence.
		Cecil Taylor has brought to music a synthesis we've long waited for.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/taylor.cecil.html (350 words)

	Algonquin : Cecil Taylor : CD Reviews : One Final Note
		For those who have delved deeply into Taylor's output, especially his duo and small group performances from the mid eighties on—culminating in the historic Berlin residency in 1988—the terrain will be familiar.
		That may seem an odd statement about a pianist who is said to approach his piano as a tuned set of drums, but Taylor's rhythmic sensibility, as is the case with his harmonic and melodic inventiveness, is beyond what we typically think of when we think of rhythm.
		If typical Taylor is the beautiful terror that the many-mouthed, many-eyed, many-teethed visage of Krishna instills in the Bahagavad Gita, this is a Taylor closer to the world: Mortal (perhaps even a bit frail?) but capable of intensity of feeling and emotion that still leaves the rest of us in awe.
	www.onefinalnote.com /reviews/t/taylor-cecil/algonquin.asp (579 words)

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