Caravan Posted May 20, 2018 Report Posted May 20, 2018 Shatz wrote: "....Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “This Nearly Was Mine” on his 1960 album The World of Cecil Taylor—one of the last standards he would ever perform...." In 1962 (Copenhagen and Stockholm) he was still playing What's New? and Flamingo, the latter of Earl Bostic (but not written by) renown. Quote
king ubu Posted May 20, 2018 Report Posted May 20, 2018 Maybe that's why he writes "one of the last"? - for a career that went on for five more decades, I think that's a sound way of putting it. After all, up to that point, Taylor had recorded plenty of standards ... and "This Nearly Was Mine" is a standout! Regarding the apocryphal stories and episodes, I wouldn't mind Shatz mentioning them, but the insistence on them being true is indeed problematic. But obviously, the grown-up reader will still harbour his/her doubts ... Quote
paul secor Posted May 20, 2018 Report Posted May 20, 2018 I was listening to Roscoe Mitchell's Nessa recording, Celebrating Fred Anderson. yesterday and remembered a story I'd read (can't recall where) about Mr. Mitchell sitting in with Coltrane's group at a Chicago club in 1965 or '66, playing a solo that left many folks with dropped jaws, packing up his horn and leaving the club without saying a word. I have no way of knowing if that story is true, if it's a myth, or a combination of the two. And I don't care which it is. To me, it's just a great story. Sometimes myths are better than "facts". The truth is in the music. Quote
erhodes Posted May 21, 2018 Report Posted May 21, 2018 1 hour ago, paul secor said: I was listening to Roscoe Mitchell's Nessa recording, Celebrating Fred Anderson. yesterday and remembered a story I'd read (can't recall where) about Mr. Mitchell sitting in with Coltrane's group at a Chicago club in 1965 or '66, playing a solo that left many folks with dropped jaws, packing up his horn and leaving the club without saying a word. I have no way of knowing if that story is true, if it's a myth, or a combination of the two. And I don't care which it is. To me, it's just a great story. Sometimes myths are better than "facts". The truth is in the music. Previous thread ...and... http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/39766-roscoe-mitchell-brings-jazz-history-to-mills/ Re: broken wrists... This from an old Cecil discography by Mike Hames. It's part of the notes for an entry dated March-April 1964, the Bennington College performance and panel. "Cecil Taylor seems to have played very few gigs in 1964 - partly because he was attacked in May, 1964 and had his wrist broken." Sunny Murray's references to "gangsters" was usually about his own recordings. He used that term to describe the people at BYG. I know of no instance in which he used it to describe people in connection with Cecil's recordings. Quote
David Ayers Posted May 21, 2018 Report Posted May 21, 2018 4 hours ago, erhodes said: Huh... Murray did talk about it here. Great interview. And on origins of Ayler tunes in Swedish music and French folk song...! I don’t get out enough... Quote
Joe Posted May 21, 2018 Report Posted May 21, 2018 "Cecil Taylor (1929-2018), Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka" -- https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/cecil-taylor-1929-2018-frank-ohara-amiri-baraka/ Quote
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