Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
As a Jazz novice, I’m not really that confident about recommendation re the usefulness or not of Jazz threads in online forums. But, here’s one that looks to be of interest. I just hope I got an image of the correct Mr Taylor. Oh well. Please click HERE for the thread
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
For free-jazz pianists, following Cecil Taylor and Keith Tippett must be like trying to paint Mont Saint-Victoire after Cézanne.
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
SPRING OF TWO BLUE-J’S Cecil Taylor Spring of Two Blue-J’s Unit Core : 1974 CT, piano. I. A hand and a piano Are one A hand and a piano and a Blue-J Are one. II. Recorded at a Town Hall concert, this album features Cecil Taylor solo on side one and with Jimmy Lyons, Sirone, and Andrew Cyrille on the second side. Both tracks share the same title. We’re highlighting the entire 16-minute [...]
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
“We misspelled the first name of the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk as Thelonius in a CD review of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Advance (page 10, Film& Music, July 11). We referred to a composition of Monk’s as Bemsha Monk; we meant Beshma Swing.” - Guardian Corrections and clarifications, July 1 8. “Thelonious Monk wrote Bemsha Swing, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Review Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Today, most listeners think of Cecil Taylor as an awesome enigma. After all, it was more than 40 years ago that the American pianist started playing music in which it was tough to discern a tune unless you had a brain that could slow down a red-hot rush of notes to a stroll. But Taylor was a postbopper, and a fan of Thelonius Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington once...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Sunny Murray illuminates jazz drumming. His open meters and timing set rhythm and pulse on a new and invigorating course. In doing so, he gave jazz drumming a dynamism and drive that still resonates. In the early days of his career, Murray played with Jackie McLean, Cecil Taylor and Albert Ayler. This gave him the opportunity to open out and transcend the ordinary, a trait that is seen to advantage...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
SFJAZZ Announces The Artist Line-Up for the 26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival Highlights Include Miles From India, Mavis Staples, Randy Newman, Dave Brubeck, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Scott, Maceo Parker, Max Raabe and The Palast Orchester, Ravi Coltrane, Arturo Sandoval, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Toumani Diabat, Issac Delgado, Dr. Lonnie Smith,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Reviews of performances by Tribe, Cecil Taylor and Sérgio Mendes.
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
This clip taken from a 1981 documentary titled Imagine the Sound is a rare document of one of the avant-garde world's greatest piano players, Cecil Taylor. Most footage that has been released...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Nine Concerts Include Performances by Billy Taylor, Charles Lloyd, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecil Taylor, George Cables, Ravi Coltrane, Geri Allen, Bad Plus 1 with Kurt Rosenwinkel. NEW YORK, NY - The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival New York, produced by The Festival Network, LLC (FN), presents a "festival within the festival" at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (NYSEC), 2 West 64th...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Day jobs have been a necessay component of the free jazz life since the musics inception. Cecil Taylor toiled as an elevator operator. David S. Ware drove a cab. And so on and so on. Saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc opted...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
If live, improvised music is happening in Philadelphia, there's a good chance Elliott Levin is involved. At 54, the West Philadelphia native has a long and accomplished record in the jazz avant-garde. He's been involved with pianist Cecil Taylor's large ensembles since the early 1970s. He's worked extensively with Marshall Allen, the late Tyrone Hill and other members of the Sun Ra Arkestra.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
A relative latecomer to jazz, occupying the classical and contemporary composition spheres until the age of 28, Marilyn Crispell's early ventures into jazz and improvised music were in the context of a more aggressive approach informed by Cecil Taylor. Over the past decade, however, while the pianist's sense of adventure hasn't diminished, she's introduced a sparer lyricism, making three previous ECM...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
2008 JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL - NEW YORK LIGHTS UP THE CITY JUNE 15 - 28 Festival Highlights Include Herbie Hancock, Joo Gilberto, Jill Scott, Chris Botti, Mos Def Big Band with Gil Scott-Heron, Bad Plus 1 featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sergio Mendes, Zap Mama, Charlie Haden Quartet West, Cecil Taylor, Charles Lloyd, Soulive with Joshua Redman, Dick Hyman, Tierney Sutton, Maceo Parker and More...
wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
To be or not to bop (with apologies to Babs Gonzales ...) Bird and Diz at Carnegie Hall, 1947... Bop in the joy spring of its years... This is 'Confirmation' – of their greatness (I know - but - couldn't resist). Opening on drums, then the familiar theme in unison at a sprightly tempo. Bird up first, sounding relaxed, sudden flurries of notes breaking the line. Tone drenched in the blues, such a human...
