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Remembering the great Cecil Taylor who was born on this day in 1929. Known as an uncompromising musical radical, Taylor was one of the first musicians to release jazz improvisation from fixed harmonic structures.
Influenced by both classical music and jazz, he became a virtuoso pianist with a unique range of dynamics, attacks, and harmonic resources, including many tone clusters played for percussive, not harmonic, effect.
His approach had evolved to incorporate clusters and a dense rhythmic sensibility, coupled with a sheer physicality that often found him addressing the keyboard with open palms, elbows, and forearms. Taylor’s solo piano recordings are some of the most challenging and rewarding to listen to in all of jazz.
Here, he is performing with Sam Rivers on tenor saxophone and flute, Jimmy Lyons on alto saxophone and Andrew Cyrille on drums live in Denmark, 1969.