Cecil Taylor: Love Him or Not...

desertrat07 · Mar 5, 2020

I decidedly do love Cecil Taylor. Even today, he sounds like he came from the future.

splatt · Mar 5, 2020

love him. loved him, loved hanging out with him at my used-to-be 55bar gigs.
he lived in his own present.

desertrat07 · Mar 5, 2020

splatt said:
love him. loved him, loved hanging out with him at my used-to-be 55bar gigs.
he lived in his own present.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

ropiyas · Mar 6, 2020

desertrat07 said:
I decidedly do love Cecil Taylor. Even today, he sounds like he came from the future.

That was beautiful, man.
Intense.
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting contrast between his and say...Zeitlin's free approach.

Bluesra · Mar 6, 2020

I love him, from his early stuff that is more straight forward (still quite dissonant) to his crazyness. He was truly one of a kind

weevilcaster · Mar 6, 2020

Indeed

WahmBoomAh · Mar 8, 2020

smitten

mc5nrg · Mar 8, 2020

One of one of my favorite Fred "Sonic" Smith on stage comments:
"Now we're going to play a Cecil Taylor song".