Cecil Taylor, Pianist Who Defied Jazz Orthodoxy, Is Dead at 89

[rodrigaj]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/obituaries/cecil-taylor-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

 

I saw Cecil Taylor many years ago in NYC. I did not understand what his music was about but I remembered being mesmerized by it. RIP. 

[Pibroch]

Thanks for the news. I too saw him live, in 2007 on two successive nights in the Rose Room in Jazz at Lincoln Center. Very exciting stuff playing with Henry Grimes on bass and violin, and Pheeroan akLaff on drum set. Got to meet him during rehearsals in his apartment and hang with him after concert there too. Found him a charming fellow full of artistic enthusiasm - he would even get turned on aesthetically by the shape of a tree in the back garden or the artistic designs of magazine advertisements, some of which pages were on display in his home. 

 

By by the way I discovered there are many wonderful recordings of his, both studio and live, on Tidal.