PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Cecil Taylor: Still Wonderfully, Inventive '” and Crazy '” After All These Years

Pianist Cecil Taylor's entrance at Grace Cathedral on Friday was typically cryptic. While padding in his moccasins, at times slowly dancing toward the Steinway at the front of the Gothic hall, this legendary jazz player—one of the purest artists in any genre of the past half-century—chanted and murmured one of his poems: about electrons, infinite mass and the "unit time between two parallel places...

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