Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! – review

(MPS/Promising Music)In the liner notes to this German-recorded reissue from 1980, free-jazz pianist Alex von Schlippenbach writes about when he first heard Cecil Taylor perform. "Here I could breathe the air from another planet," he recalls. "It may have been just like this when Beethoven improvised." From the late 50s, the unique African-American pianist conceived a unique fusion of jazz, 19th-century European Romantic music, and the rhythmic impulsiveness of modern dance, but spliced it all w...

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