CECIL TAYLOR, Conquistador (Part 1)
A giant of Jazz departs, Cecil Taylor, one of the last extraordinary talents of the old guard.
From the very beginning, he offered music that was free and liberating for anyone who wanted to drink from this tumultuous and ever-uncompromising source. Cecil was always consistent with himself, proposing an art that was never just an end in itself, but a ray of light toward the future, an open door to cross over to new expressive forms.
Cecil was generous; he "worked" for his own cravings and intimate emotions, but he also did it for others, with his unique style, defined in the environment and among enthusiasts as "elbow piano," where harmonization was made up of clusters of solid-shaped notes that fell to compose a series of melodic interlocks, coalescing into a holistic picture with a miraculous quality due to the perpetual precariousness (to the ear) with which it remained balanced without ever falling apart.
A master in the use of dissonances and a chemist in measuring out intervals of silence to the point...of making them "sound" as well, all punctuated by a percussive, skewed, angular, violent, and colluding style in the dual role of evocative melody and rhythm.
He leaves behind a staggering discography for its freshness and the peaks reached, summarizable in titles like "Conquistador," "Unit Structures," "The World of Cecil Taylor," "Winged Serpent," "3 Phasis," and many others.
Cecil Taylor: 1929 - 2018
So Long.
A giant of Jazz departs, Cecil Taylor, one of the last extraordinary talents of the old guard.
From the very beginning, he offered music that was free and liberating for anyone who wanted to drink from this tumultuous and ever-uncompromising source. Cecil was always consistent with himself, proposing an art that was never just an end in itself, but a ray of light toward the future, an open door to cross over to new expressive forms.
Cecil was generous; he "worked" for his own cravings and intimate emotions, but he also did it for others, with his unique style, defined in the environment and among enthusiasts as "elbow piano," where harmonization was made up of clusters of solid-shaped notes that fell to compose a series of melodic interlocks, coalescing into a holistic picture with a miraculous quality due to the perpetual precariousness (to the ear) with which it remained balanced without ever falling apart.
A master in the use of dissonances and a chemist in measuring out intervals of silence to the point...of making them "sound" as well, all punctuated by a percussive, skewed, angular, violent, and colluding style in the dual role of evocative melody and rhythm.
He leaves behind a staggering discography for its freshness and the peaks reached, summarizable in titles like "Conquistador," "Unit Structures," "The World of Cecil Taylor," "Winged Serpent," "3 Phasis," and many others.
Cecil Taylor: 1929 - 2018
So Long.
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