Cecil Taylor, free jazz pioneer, dies age 89

The New York-born pianist’s unique and radical improvisation style was a broad influence on the jazz avant gardeThe jazz pianist Cecil Taylor has died at the age of 89, at home in Brooklyn. The cause of death is unknown, but his passing has been widely reported amongst his peers online.Taylor was one of the key figures in the free jazz revolution, a change heralded by the pianist’s 1956 album Jazz Advance, which upended the 1950s “cool school” sound. By the mid-1960s, h...

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