Cecil Taylor
USA
Born: 15 March 1929
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Avant-Garde
Styles: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Improvised Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative, Progressive Jazz, Big Band/Swing
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Soon after he first emerged in the mid-'50s, pianist Cecil Taylor was the most advanced improviser in jazz; five decades later he is still the most radical. Although in his early days he used some standards as vehicles for improvisation, since the early '60s Taylor has stuck exclusively to originals. To simplify describing his style, one could say that Taylor's intense atonal percussive approach involves playing the piano as if it were a set of drums. He generally emphasizes dense clusters of sound played with remarkable technique and endurance...
See also
- Louis Sclavis (15)
- Eddie Gale (0)
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- Paul Bley (80)
- Marilyn Crispell (21)
- Sun Ra (20)
- Albert Ayler (10)
Influenced by
- Miles Davis (281)
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Oscar Peterson (166)
- Thelonious Monk (94)
- Louis Armstrong (74)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Coleman Hawkins (30)
- Erroll Garner (17)
- Bud Powell (13)
- John Lewis (12)
- Horace Silver (11)
- Sidney Bechet (2)
- Chick Webb (1)
Followers
- Sam Rivers (43)
- Anthony Braxton (39)
- Enrico Rava (37)
- Steve Lacy (28)
- Archie Shepp (13)
- Lonnie Liston Smith (8)
- Andrew Cyrille (6)
- Geri Allen (4)
- Roswell Rudd (3)
- Giorgio Gaslini (3)
- Sergey Kuryokhin (1)
- Frank Kimbrough (1)
Performed Songs By
- Mary Lou Williams (4)
- Cole Porter (2)
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