A Long Island man who scammed jazz great Cecil Taylor out of nearly $500,000 worth of international award money has been sentenced to 1-3 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of second ...

On April 5th 2018, the world lost pianist, composer, poet and iconoclast Cecil Taylor, at age 89. Taylor was the last surviving member of a generation of players who gave birth to the music variously ...

Taylor's 1973 concert at New York's Town Hall has just been released for the first time as a digital album. It's a great, early example of Taylor's mature music — dense but well-designed. This is ...

Hat Hut has done the world a favor and restored Cecil Taylor's epic 1978 Stuttgart concert recording, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, to the active list. Originally released in the unwieldy ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor was swindled out of a prize worth about $500,000 by a general contractor who befriended him while working on the house next door to Taylor's in New York ...

How do you pay tribute to a true original? That’s the question at the heart of Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor, a fascinating new album — produced by avant-garde mastermind John Zorn — on which six ...

In his pleasingly cockeyed docu, "Cecil Taylor: All the Notes," filmmaker Christopher Felver understands that a straight-ahead portrait of the grand master of free jazz piano would simply be wrong.

Cecil Taylor (1929-2018) is the most influential jazz pianist of the late 20th century. Some of today’s leading keyboard masters, including Kris Davis, Vijay Iyer, Matthew Shipp and Craig Taborn, cite ...

Cecil Taylor, an avant-garde jazz pianist whose long, sweat-drenched performances aspired to a state of ecstasy and whose uncompromising approach to music elicited both harsh criticism and awestruck ...

A performance recorded at Town Hall in 1973 went unreleased, partly because of its length. A digital-only release this week includes the 88-minute track “Autumn/Parade.” By Alan Scherstuhl The most ...