Latest Release
- NOV 9, 2022
- 3 Songs
- Hard Driving Jazz · 1958
- Jazz Advance · 1956
- Cecil Taylor Live in the Black Forest · 2016
- Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come · 1962
- Jazz Advantage · 1956
- Unit Structures · 1966
- Looking Ahead (Remastered) · 1958
- Unit Structures · 1966
- Conquistador! (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) · 1966
- Conquistador! (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) · 1966
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- Up close with the godfather of free jazz.
- Advanced harmonic lines ride alongside wild rhythmic engines.
Singles & EPs
- 1966
- 2022
Compilations
- 2013
- 2013
- 2013
Appears On
- Cecil Taylor
- Cecil Taylor
About Cecil Taylor
Rivaled perhaps only by Art Tatum as a virtuoso of jazz piano, Taylor combined the compositional grandeur of the European tradition with a technique of jackhammer intensity to create marathon tsunamis of joy, rage, lyricism, humor, and pathos. Beginning in the '50s, this perennial radical shaped a body of work that, in its range and audacity, made him arguably one of two or three of the most original jazz artists of the postwar period.
- HOMETOWN
- Queens, NY, United States
- BORN
- March 25, 1929
- GENRE
- Jazz