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Cecil Taylor: Mr. Taylor's Filibuster

by Kurt Gottschalk
March 11, 2004

As adventurous jazz fans have known for decades, and less adventurous fans have lamented for just as long, there’s nothing easy about Cecil Taylor’s music. It’s fast and it’s furious. It’s very nearly incomprehensible and, quite plainly, genius. A close listener would be doing well to follow a quarter of the information shot out in a ...

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A Casual Stroll Down The Free Jazz / Avant Garde Avenue

by AAJ Staff
October 23, 2003

Since most of the readers of this column who write to me seem to be rather at home with the Swing and Be Bop or Hard Bop and Cool Jazz eras, I have been meaning to write a piece on Free Jazz and its slightly sterner-miened cousin Avant-Garde. There can be hardly a doubt that reactions ...

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Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz

by AAJ Staff
April 8, 2003

Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...

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Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
February 3, 2003

We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...

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Cecil Taylor / Bill Dixon / Tony Oxley

By Cecil Taylor

Label: FMP
Released: 2002

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The Willisau Concert

By Cecil Taylor

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Willisau Concert Part 1 2.Willisau Concert Part 2. 3.Willisau Concert Part 3. 4.Willisau Concert Part 4. 5.Willisau Concert Part 5

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