Re: Cecil Taylor

on 8/20/01 8:53 AM, MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com at
MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:57:12 -0000
> From: jacky_ligon@...
> Subject: Re: Practice and theory in 13-tET -- Hi, Margo!

> [Note: Cecil Taylor is one of the greatest living Free Jazz piano
> players and poets, who plays with an extremely rhythmic/chromatic
> style. He is so incredibly fast that it reminds one of Nancarrow's
> player piano studies, but done with human hands. He is a wonder to
> behold, but not for everyone's tastes.

Hi Jacky,

Cecil Taylor is truly amazing, I heard/saw/experienced a solo piano concert
he did in Washington DC during the mid 1980s. He beautifully incorporated
ritual into the performance, first dancing around the instrument as if
encountering the piano for the first time, circling it, looking at it,
touching it, inquisitively stroking strings and tapping percussively on the
case, and finally sitting down to the keyboard for almost two hours of
non-stop improvisation, the likes of which I've never heard since.

I also heard Dollar Brand on the same concert series that year. Another
favorite pianist!

Seth

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