Cecil Taylor
Cecil Percival Taylor (born the March 15th 1929) is a pianist and Poète states-unien. He is known to be one of the creators of the Free jazz with Ornette Coleman.
Biography
He is born with New York on March 15th, 1929. He learns the piano at 6 years. His/her mother, musician and dancer die when it is 12 years old. He studies in the New York College off Music and New England Conservatory. After having played in small groups of R&B and swing in the years 1950, it forms in 1956 its own group with the saxophonist soprano Steve Lacy.
During the decades 1950-1960, he pains to find work, in spite of outstanding works commes Unit Structures and Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Like and an album in duet with John Coltrane Coltrane Time/Hard Drivin' Jazz .
Taylor plays and records mainly with the saxophonist viola Jimmy Lyons, of 1961 until the death of Lyons in 1986, like with the beaters Sunny Murray and Andrew Cyrille.
With this group, known under the name of " The Unit" , it develops new forms of interactions and musical dialogs. From the beginning of the year 1970, Taylor is rented by criticism. He plays for Jimmy Carter on the lawn of the White House and gives courses like artist-resident in universities. He is rewarded by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 and will receive a MacArthur Genius Award in 1991.
After the death of Lyons, Taylor plays in varied formations. In solo, it leaves Silent Tongues , Indent , For Olim , Garden , Erzulie Maketh Scent , The Tree off Life , and In Willisau . With the Feel Trio formed at the beginning of the Years 1990 with the double bass player William Parker and the beater Tony Oxley, it leaves Celebrated Blazons , Looking (The Feel Trio) , and the box 2 You S for has Lovely T .
It records much for the German label FMP at the time of its prolonged stay with Berlin. He played in duet or trio with musicians of free European jazz of which Oxley, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, Louis Moholo, Paul Lovens.
The majority of its recent discs left on European labels to the exceptions Momentum Space with Dewey Redman and Elvin Jones.
In 1998, it leaves Library off Congress performance Algonquin in duet with the violonist Mat Maneri. It left little albums in the Années 2000 but continuous to give concerts, often on its preferred instrument, the piano Bösendorfer.
Taylor and dance
Cecil Taylor was also interested in the Ballet and the Danse. He affirmed: “I try to imitate with the piano the jumps in the space which the dancers make”.He collaborated with the dancer Diane McIntyre in 1977 and 1979. In 1979, it also composed the music for the 12 minutes ballet Tetra Stomp: Eatin' Rain in Space with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Heather Watts.
Taylor and poetry
Taylor is also a Poète, influenced by Robert Duncan, Charles Olson and Amiri Baraka. It integrates sometimes its poems in its concerts. In 1987, it left Chinampas on which it recites its poems not accompanied.
Discography
- Jazz Advance , 1956
- The Cecil Taylor Four-bit byte At Newport , 1957
- Looking Ahead! , 1958
- Coltrane Time (identical with Hardware Driving Jazz ), 1958
- Coils for Sale , 1959
- The World off Cecil Taylor , 1960
- Air , 1961
- Jumpin' Punkins , 1961
- New York City R&B (with Buell Neidlinger), 1961
- Cell Walk for Celeste , 1961
- Mixed , 1961
- Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Like , 1962
- Unit Structures , 1966
- Conquistador! , 1966
- Great Paris Concert , flight 1 & 2 (identical with Student Studies ), 1966
- Praxis , 1968
- The Jazz Composer' S Orchestrated (with Michael Mantler and others), 1968
- The Great Concert (identical with Nuits of the Foundation Maeght ), 1969
- Indent , 1973
- Akisakila , 1973
- Solo , 1973
- Spring off Two Blue I S , 1973
- Silent Tongues , 1974
- Dark to Themselves , 1976
- Air Above Mountains (Within Buildings) , 1976
- Nachricht vom Moor , 1976
- Cecil Taylor & Mary Lou Williams: Embraced , 1977
- Cecil Taylor Links , 1978
- 3 Phasis , 1978
- Live in the Black Forest , 1978
- One Two Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye , 1978
- Tony Williams: Joy off Flying , 1978
- Cecil Taylor and max Roach: Historic Concerts , 1979
- Fly! Fly! Fly! , 1980
- Is it the Brewing Luminous , 1980
- Calling it the 8th , 1981
- Garden , 1981
- Winged Snake , 1984
- Cecil Taylor Segments II /Orchestrated off two Continents, 1984
- For Olim , 1986
- Olu Iwa , 1986
- Iwnontonwusi - Live At Sweet Basil , 1986
- Live in Bologna , 1987
- Live in Vienna , 1987
- Chinampas , 1987
- Tzotzil Mummers Tzotzil , 1987
- Erzulie Maketh Scent , 1988
- Pleistozaen put Wasser , 1988
- Riobec - Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer, 1988
- Leaf Palm Hand , 1988
- Spots, Circles, and Fantasy , 1988
- Regalia - Cecil Taylor & Paul Lovens, 1988
- Remembrance , 1988
- The Hearth , 1988
- Riobec , 1988
- Legba Crossing , 1988
- Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) , 1988
- In East Berlin , 1988
- In Florescence, 1989
- Looking (Berlin Version) solo , 1989
- Looking (Berlin Version) Corona , 1989
- Looking (The Feel Trio) , 1989
- Celebrated Blazons , 1990
- Doubly Holy House , 1990
- Melancholy , 1990
- Nailed , 1990
- The Tree off Life , 1991
- Always has Pleasure , 1993
- The Light off Corona , 1996
- Almeda , 1996
- That a: Live At the Iridium, vol. 1 & 2 , 1998
- Algonquin , 1998
- Incarnation , 1999
- The Willisau Concert , 2000
See too
External bonds
- Of the articles on Taylor on European Free improvisation
- the page of label FMP on Taylor