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Cecil Taylor’s Keyboard Legacy

Cecil Taylor Français : Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor Français : Cecil Taylor (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From NYTimes.com:

It seemed a necessary experiment for me to ask Mr. Taylor aesthetic-legacy questions. In the forthcoming concert series built around him — “Cecil Taylor: A Celebration of the Maestro,” presented through mid-May by Issue Project Room and Harlem Stage — Mr. Taylor will perform two of his solo piano concerts: more than partly improvised, percussive, rhapsodic, alert, full of his ringing keyboard sound, body language and poetry recitation, and totally invested in the present.


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