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Find a note that pleases you.

Then another.

And another.

—Cecil Taylor (when asked what advice he would give to a young musician)

Cecil Taylor, live, 1981 (Imagine the Sound)

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art beat

Going to an art museum you never know what you may encounter. This painting, for instance, I’d never laid eyes on—never even heard of the artist—until I happened upon it the other day at Chicago’s Art Institute.

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857-1922), Boats at Rest