*** Cecil Taylor ***

[uli]

fweiw i recently stumbled on this on the tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2hFfROSBg

[colinmce]

Another cool YouTube find: The Cecil Taylor Quartet in Prague, 1999 (with Paul Lovens, Harri Sjostrom, and Teppa Huata-apa)

[paul secor]

fweiw i recently stumbled on this on the tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2hFfROSBg

I have the LPs.

[mjazzg]

fweiw i recently stumbled on this on the tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2hFfROSBg

I have the LPs.

fweiw i recently stumbled on this on the tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2hFfROSBg

I have the LPs.

That's a very intriguing collection of musicians. How often are they all on the same track, if at all?

[clifford_thornton]

never owned the LP set but would grab it if I saw it in a shop.

Sides B and C you get the Surman Trio, Mangelsdorff, Gulda and Taylor all in the same room.

[mjazzg]

Thanks. That's a crowded room but I bet a hell of a sound comes out

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, haven't heard it in ages and don't remember being as into it at the time, but then again I was less into European improvisers when I started listening. How the tables have turned...

[Homefromtheforest]

I used to own it twice. First time I did not really get into it and sold it only to buy it again a few years later. My opinion was not much different so I got rid of it again. Great players but the end result is a bit messy and the slightly murky recording quality does nr help matters.

[clifford_thornton]

okay, so that stands with my admittedly murky early opinion. But I'd still nab one if I saw it for a cheap price.

[corto maltese]

The German issue is actually quite common and generally not expensive. The Austrian (and I think original) issue is a bit harder to find.

I probably like the music more than HFTF does, despite some inevitable longueurs typical for a concert recording. As far as I remember, the recording quality is decent.

[uli]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jazz-musician-duped-500g-tells-contractor-die-article-1.2535299

[Hardbopjazz]

That's messed up. I hope Cecil can get all of the money back.

[brownie]

Happy to see justice being done!

Really hope CT get  the money now!

[David Ayers]

An upsetting story, and it is good to see that there is some justice.

Edited February 18, 2016 by David Ayers

[uli]

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/arts/music/a-cecil-taylor-retrospective-at-whitney-museum.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160330&nlid=23108642&tntemail0=y

[paul secor]

Looks great!

[king ubu]

Yes indeed - would love to be there!

[rostasi]

latest issue:

[mjzee]

A Director's Obsession With a Jazz Pianist - WSJ

[paul secor]

Good article. Thanks for providing the link.

[Hoppy T. Frog]

So did anyone go to the Whitney retrospective?

[paul secor]

I saw an article on Cecil's appearance at the retrospective, but that was it for me.

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, Hoppy T. Frog said:

So did anyone go to the Whitney retrospective?

It's up through Sunday. I've been going and will continue to go. Writing an article on the whole shebang so will link that when it's up.

[uli]

there is a second concert now scheduled for  i believe Saturday.

[musicmargaret]

"So did anyone go to the Whitney retrospective?"  I'm not sure whether you mean anyone from this group (seems that a lot of them never go anywhere) or whether you meant anyone in the world.  Just in case you meant the latter, I asked performance curator Amanda Davis about this, and she said attendance for Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley was 750 (all tickets sold out), and average attendance for all other events, of which there have been many, sometimes a half-dozen a day, has been around 300.  "Second concert now scheduled" is a solo Cecil Taylor concert tonight (April 23rd) at 8:30 p.m.  Not sure what "I saw an article on Cecil's appearance at the retrospective, but that was it for me" means, but if you're referring to a perceived lack of press coverage, if you do a Google search on "Cecil Taylor residency Whitney Museum," almost 7,000 links come up, including "JazzTimes," "Jazziz," "The Wire," a lovely article by Larry Blumenfeld on his blog, blouinartinfo.com, brilliantly entitled "Storming Places, Like He's Always Done," "The New York Times," "BeatDown" [oops], and as the King of Siam used to say, et-cetera, et-cetera, et-cetera.