Cecil Taylor....

 

Pianist and composer Cecil Taylor (Cecil Persival Taylor), Long Island, 1933, in their blood had inoculated the mixture to explode later musically. His father, originally from the south, was a cook and servant of a senator and his mother was Indian and Scottish grandparents. Since 1938 he studied music under the direction of a piano teacher, whom he learns the concepts of classical music.

 
Later he studied percussion with musicians of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In 1951, he goes to Boston, where he has family and the next year is part of the New England Conservatory. For three years studying and harmony arrangements. It is around this time when he discovers bebop. Meet the best jazz musicians in Boston, Gigi Gryce, Jaki Byard, Charlie Mariano, Sam Rivers and Serge Chaloff, and in 1951 when, in the club Hit Hat, first seen on Charlie Parker.
 
Cecil Taylor, always cited among the pianists who influenced him to Lennie Tristano, Bud Powell, Mary Lou Williams (who touched a duet with twenty five years later in 1977 at Carnegie Hall), Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk. In 1952, he begins to embody the idea of forming their own groups but meanwhile, briefly part of the orchestra played with Johnny Hodges and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, who even teaches as an important component of their sources income. In 1957, he was hired in the Five Spot club to accompany the violinist-multi-instrumentalist, Dick Whitemore and the club becomes fashionable among the avant-garde jazz. In the early sixties, in addition to participating in the play "The Conection" with Archie Sheep, began working with saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray, who accompany him to Europe (1962).

Back in New York, last seen playing with Albert Ayler at Lincoln Center (1963). In 1966 sextet signs two albums for Blue Note, among them, who is considered his masterpiece, the one entitled "Conquistador". Cecil Taylor was not easy to accept that the record companies their music over the apparent lack of commerciality of freejazz, and this forces, in the early 70s, to create his own company, the Core Unit.

It is dedicated to teaching and working with dancers and choreographers, among others with Mikhail Baryshnikov (1979), performed concerts with the drummer Max Roach (1979), an All Star International "(1984) composed by Enrico Rava, Frank Wright, John Tchicai, Andre Martinez, etc.. And with the Art Ensemble of Chicago (1985).

Energy, percussion, movement or dance: three constants that strives to master in order to achieve perfection in the moment of improvisation. Particularly when playing alone, used a mode of development, expansion, accumulation and effects of acceleration, thus underlining the idea of a "dance''on the keyboard. Cecil Taylor, is unanimously considered as one of the founders and leading exponents of freejazz, his pianism is both a waste of virtuosity, a show of force with the piano and to the public, and extreme intensity.
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