Cecil Taylor, a jazz pianist who spent nearly his entire recording career absorbed by the dark whimsy and splendid torment of abstraction and created a new musical language that was as jagged as it was dramatic, died April 5. He was 89.
There is no listener entry point for Taylor's leadership albums. From his earliest release, Jazz Advance, recorded in S…
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