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Description: Uncompromising and endlessly controversial, Cecil Taylor's percussive, intellectual approach to jazz composition, improvisation, and piano remain largely outside the mainstream after more than 40 years. The performances on these live recordings, made in Copenhagen in 1962, are as bracing and unexpected today as they were the night they were created. A classically trained pianist prior to discovering the music of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and Horace Silver, Taylor soon developed a percussive, clustered, impressionistic style that, while taking Monk as a harmonic starting point, charts a course straight for the stratosphere ... (more)

Manufacturer: Revenant Records
Release date: 18 March 1997
EAN: 0630814020224 UPC: 630814020224

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