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Sending Cecil Taylor good karma.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Cecil Taylor is an amazing musician who refuses to cut commercial corners on his road of ongoing excellence.  Cecil and I are close mutual friends of Trudy Morse, whom I write about here. I had the good fortune to experience Cecil at the Library of Congress in 1999, and then to join with Trudy and numerous others at Cecil's hotel room to hear him talk captivatingly of music and other topics, which followed his backstage discussion of such topics as the artistry of bridges. In 2001, Cecil was playing a tambourine in the audience at Trudy's birthday celebration, and there we talked some more.  Today's news reports that Cecil "pulled out of next week's Melbourne International Jazz Festival because of illness." This follows a cancellation  of Cecil's performance around nine days ago in Vermont...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).