Taylor, Cecil

Taylor, Cecil

▪ American musician
in full  Cecil Percival Taylor 
born March 15, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S.
 
 American jazz musician and composer, the leading free-jazz pianist.

      Taylor attended the New York College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music but was influenced more decisively by the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Horace Silver. By the mid-1950s he was leading his own small groups. From his first recording (1956) Taylor was known as an uncompromising musical radical. He received high critical acclaim, but the audience for his complex and demanding music proved small. His career gradually began to gather momentum, however, and from 1973 he toured and recorded regularly, either as a solo pianist or with his own small group.

      Like Ornette Coleman, who initially overshadowed him, Taylor was one of the first musicians to free jazz improvisation from fixed harmonic structures. Influenced by both classical music and jazz, Taylor became a virtuoso pianist with a unique range of dynamics, attacks, and harmonic resources, including many tone clusters played for percussive, not harmonic, effect. His mastery of improvised form was unprecedented in jazz; he used an extensive repertoire of devices to develop simple material into dense, complex, extended, but structurally unified works. His repertoire consisted of original works, some composed of broken materials in successions of unrelated tempos. In the late 1960s he worked most often with violently fast tempos and long improvisations, and in his later work he steadily expanded his emotional range.

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