Cecil Taylor (2nd of 5)

[gomphotherium22]

Um, wow. Thanks so much for posting this incredible footage!

[loren1283]

WOW!!!!!

[Toastwithmarmelade]

Yes, I agree. Thanks a lot for posting this document. It's fun and great.

[bobjazz11]

When first posted this (and other) Cecil Taylor material on my channel i realised it would cause some disagreement. Can I say that in my view I believe that I am truly witnessing a creative act here - but I also appreciate that it may not sit well with everybody's aesthetic sensibilities. However, at the very least (like some modern theater) one is at the very least left with the impression that SOMETHING is happening. .. Which is quite often not the case with much that passed for music today

[catschna]

I love the idea and performance of "New Jazz" and "Neue Musik-Performer". I have liven in Freiburg( Germany )and enjoyed the musical progressivity there, but now I am living in contance see( Bodensee ) and the music scene here is very old-timed( here`= Jazz is in good playing quality but very old fashioned! ), In Bregenz or in this same region I miss this kind of "free improvisation" ( in the real sense of what Jazz ist ) very much!! It is inspired and "free" by hearing artists as cecil taylor.

[bebop1066]

I waited in line at a sold out performance at Keystone Corner in SF (ca 1976)for a Cecil T performance. Luckily for me, shortly after the show began people began to leave. "That's not even music" they complained to one another. A short time later I bought the blue note reissue of a performance at the 1955 newport festival. The liner notes explained how people milled around nervously and complained "that it wasn't even music"!

Jan Hus, being burned at the stake, exclaimed "Oh Holy Simplicity"

[TomBandfield]

Wow, it's great that there's a full concert by the legend that is Cecil Taylor here on youtube. A stunning performance. Thanks Bob.