Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 25th, 1929 and is the Pianist. At the age of 89, Cecil Taylor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Cecil Persuad Taylor (March 25, 1929-April 5, 2018) was a composer and writer who was educated classically and was one of the pioneers of free jazz.
His music is often characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in a complicated improvisation with tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms.
His technique has been likened to percussion.
Val Wilmer used the term "eight-eight tuned drums" to describe Taylor's style, referring to the number of keys on a standard piano.
He has been described as being "as Art Tatum with modern-classical leanings," he says.
Early life and education
Cecil Perpetual Taylor was born in Long Island City, Queens, on March 25, 1929, and was raised in Corona, Queens. Taylor's mother, who was the only child of a middle-class family, encouraged him to play music at an early age. He started playing piano at the age of six and went on to study at the New York College of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. Taylor worked on composition and arranging at the New England Conservatory. He became familiar with contemporary European art music during his stay there. Bela Bartók and Karlheinz Stockhausen were both influential on his music.
Taylor moved from Boston to New York City in 1955. Steve Lacy, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Dennis Charles formed a quartet with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, bassist Buell Neidlinger. Lacy was featured in Taylor's first album, Jazz Advance, which was released in 1956. Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that although there are still many nods to traditional post-bop style in this set, it still refers to the freedoms in which the pianist will later immerse himself." Lacy's quartet appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, which was also included on the album At Newport. Taylor collaborated with saxophonist John Coltrane in 1958 on Stereo Drive, which is now available as Coltrane Time.
1950s and early 1960s
Taylor's music evolved more intricate and moved away from traditional jazz styles during the 1950s and 1960s. Gigs were often impossible to come by, and club owners discovered that Taylor's playing long pieces tended to hinder company.His 1959 LP record Looking Ahead!
Compared to the jazz standard, his invention as a designer was on display. Taylor, unlike others at the time, used virtuosic techniques and made quick stylistic shifts from phrase to word. These attributes, among other things, remained strong characteristics of his music for the remainder of his life.Unit Structures (1966), a landmark recording, also appeared. Musicians were able to develop new forms of conversational interplay within the Cecil Taylor Unit (a term that was often used at performances and recordings from 1962 to 2006 for a small group of sidemen). Albert Ayler, a young boy from Taylor's childhood, jammeding and appearing on at least one recording, Four, which was unreleased until appearing on the 2004 Ayler box set Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70).
Taylor was regularly working with alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, who would become one of his most influential and consistent collaborators by 1961. Taylor, Lyons, and drummer Sunny Murray (and later Andrew Cyrille) made the Cecil Taylor Unit's key band, Taylor's main ensemble, until Lyons' death in 1986. Lyons' playing, heavily influenced by jazz legend Charlie Parker, maintained a strong blues sensibility while also contributing to Taylor's increasingly avant garde music's growing jazz heritage.
Personal life and death
Stanley Crouch, a jazz critic, wrote that Taylor was gay in 1982, sparking an outraged reaction. "[s]omeone once asked me if I was gay," Taylor told a New York Times reporter. "Do you agree that a three-letter word conveys the complexities of my humanity?' I said. I try to avoid the trap of simple definition."
In 1983, Taylor moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He died at his Brooklyn home on April 5, 2018, at the age of 89. Taylor, at the time of his death, was working on an autobiography and future concerts, among other things.