Tuesday, March 25th
by musicclipoftheday
Happy (85th) Birthday, Cecil!
Cecil Taylor (March 25, 1929-), pianist, composer, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, 2013 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy, etc.
Today, celebrating his musical life, we revisit three favorites.
Live, Germany (Nürnberg), 1984
***
Live (with Rashid Bakr, drums; Thurman Barker, marimba, miscellaneous percussion), 1995
***
Live (with Max Roach, drums), New York (Columbia University), 2000
**********
lagniappe
musical thoughts
I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.
—Cecil Taylor