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    Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of...
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  • Discography for jazz pianist Cecil Taylor. Compilations In Transition (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1955 and 1959; compiles tracks from Jazz Advance...
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  • World of Cecil Taylor is an album by Cecil Taylor, recorded for the Candid label in October 1960. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie...
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  • ("Jack") F. A. V. Cecil, Edith Ann Cecil, Catherine Cecil Taylor, Margaret Cecil Sinnott, Louisa Cecil Harrison, and Christopher Cecil. His elder son, John...
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  • Cecil Taylor Nichols (born March 3, 1959) is an American actor, known for his roles in several films by Whit Stillman including major roles in Metropolitan...
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  • Cecil Taylor Unit is an album by Cecil Taylor, recorded in April 1978 and released on the New World label. The album features three performances by Taylor...
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  • Cecil Philip Taylor (6 November 1929 – 9 December 1981) usually credited as C.P. Taylor, was a Scottish playwright. He wrote almost 80 plays during his...
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  • album by the pianist Cecil Taylor, recorded for the United Artists label in April 1959. The album features performances by Taylor with Buell Neidlinger...
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  • discussions at the Cellar Café in Manhattan. The participants included pianist Cecil Taylor and bandleader Sun Ra. It was the first free-jazz festival of its kind...
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  • diplomat Cecil Clyde Squier (died 1951), American politician from Maryland Cecil W. Stoughton (1920–2008), American photographer Cecil Taylor (1929–2018)...
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    his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit. Lyons was the only constant member of the band from the mid-1960s until his death. Taylor never worked with another...
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  • pianist Cecil Taylor, with whom all three musicians played; despite this, it does not feature a piano, and does not "attempt to reanimate or imitate Cecil Taylor's...
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  • the Mothers of Invention, Simon & Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Blues Project...
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  • Air is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded for the Candid label in October 1960. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger...
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    libretto includes quotes from John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Nietzsche, and Hegel. Lamar coined the terms "Negrogothic" and "doom...
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    key figures in free jazz, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, as well as experimental musicians such as Keiji Haino and Charles Hayward...
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  • Conquistador! is a 1968 studio album recorded in 1966 by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released by Blue Note Records. Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow gave...
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  • is a live album by the Gigi Gryce–Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory and the Cecil Taylor Quartet recorded for the Verve label at the Newport Jazz Festival in...
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    performed and recorded with the three prime shapers of free jazz: pianist Cecil Taylor, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. Musician, Player...
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    with avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor at Carnegie Hall on April 17, 1977. Despite onstage tensions between Williams and Taylor, their performance was released...
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  • Unit Structures (category Cecil Taylor albums)
    album by American jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released in October 1966 by Blue Note Records. Unit Structures was Taylor's first album on Blue Note; he would...
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  • Into the Hot (Gil Evans album) (category Albums produced by Creed Taylor)
    featuring a large ensemble under the direction of John Carisi and the Cecil Taylor Unit. The album was released on the Impulse! label in 1962. Composer/trumpeter...
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  • The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969, and released on the Prestige label...
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    performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer Chris Kelsey wrote: "Few free-jazz...
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  • Sanders, Oscar Peterson, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Cecil Taylor, he caught the jazz bug and began teaching himself how to play jazz piano...
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  • movement.: 314  Pianist Cecil Taylor was also exploring the possibilities of avant-garde free jazz. A classically trained pianist, Taylor's main influences included...
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  • by Cecil Taylor recorded at Iino Hall in Chiyoda, Tokyo on May 29, 1973, and released on the Japanese Trio label. All compositions by Cecil Taylor. "Choral...
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  • Incarnation is a live album by American pianist Cecil Taylor. It was recorded on November 4, 1999 during the "Total Music Meeting" at the "Podewil" in...
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  • also play a significant role in the work of free jazz musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, and Kevin Kastning. In most Western music, tone clusters...
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    jamming as an unpaid member of Cecil Taylor's band in the winter of 1962–63. (Long-rumored tapes of Ayler performing with Taylor's group were released by Revenant...
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