Cecil Percival Taylor (Nova Iorque, 25 de março de 1929 - Nova Iorque, 5 de abril de 2018) foi um pianista de free jazz e poetaYanow, Scott (2008). "Cecil Taylor biography", AllMusic. norte-americano. Com formação clássica, Taylor é geralmente lembrado como um dos inventores do free jazz. Sua música é caracterizada por uma abordagem extremamente enérgica, produzindo sons improvisados complexos, frequentemente envolvendo clusters e complexas polirritmias. Sua técnica ao piano já foi comparada à percussão, descrita como "uma bateria afinada em 88 tons" (referindo ao número de teclas do piano).
Morreu aos 89 anos em 5 de abril de 2018, em Nova Iorque. thumb|300px|Cecil Taylor, no Festival Mœrs 2008 Discografia Jazz Advance, 1956 The Cecil Taylor Quartet at Newport, 1957 Looking Ahead!, 1958 Coltrane Time (identical with Hard Driving Jazz), 1958 Love for Sale, 1959 The World of Cecil Taylor, 1960 Air, 1961 Jumpin' Punkins, 1961 New York City R&B (with Buell Neidlinger), 1961 Cell Walk for Celeste, 1961 Mixed, 1961 Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come, 1962 Unit Structures, 1966 Conquistador!, 1966 Great Paris Concert, vol 1 & 2 (identical with Student Studies), 1966 Praxis, 1968 Communications, 1968 with Mike Mantler & Carla Bley's "JCOA: Jazz Composer's OrchestrA" (featuring Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri.) The Great Concert (identical with Nuits de la Fondation Maeght), 1969 Indent, 1973 Akisakila, 1973 Solo, 1973 Spring of Two Blue J's, 1973 Silent Tongues, 1974 Dark to Themselves, 1976 Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within), 1976 Nachricht vom Lande, 1976 Cecil Taylor & Mary Lou Williams: Embraced, 1977 Cecil Taylor Unit, 1978 3 Phasis, 1978 Live in the Black Forest, 1978 One Two Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, 1978 Tony Williams: Joy of Flying, 1978 Cecil Taylor and Max Roach: Historic Concerts, 1979 Fly! Fly! Fly!, 1980 Is it the Brewing Luminous, 1980 Calling it the 8th, 1981 Garden, 1981 Winged Serpent, 1984 Cecil Taylor Segments II/ Orchestra of two Continents, 1984 For Olim, 1986 Olu Iwa, 1986 Iwnontonwusi - Live at Sweet Basil, 1986 Live in Bologna, 1987 Live in Vienna, 1987 Chinampas, 1987 Tzotzil Mummers Tzotzil, 1987 Erzulie Maketh Scent, 1988 Pleistozaen mit Wasser, 1988 Riobec - Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer, 1988 Leaf Palm Hand, 1988 Spots, Circles, and Fantasy, 1988 Regalia - Cecil Taylor & Paul Lovens, 1988 Remembrance, 1988 The Hearth, 1988 Riobec, 1988 Legba Crossing, 1988 Alms / Tiergarten (Spree), 1988 In East Berlin, 1988 In Florescence, 1989 Looking (Berlin Version) solo, 1989 Looking (Berlin Version) Corona, 1989 Looking (The Feel Trio), 1989 Celebrated Blazons, 1990 Doubly Holy House, 1990 Melancholy - Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs Nailed, 1990 The Tree of Life, 1991 Always a Pleasure - Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Tristan Honsinger 1993 The Light of Corona- Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström 1996 Almeda- Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström 1996 Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, vol. 1 & 2 - Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström 1998 Algonquin, 1998 Incarnation, 1999 The Willisau Concert, 2000
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