Playlist Addition: Cecil Taylor Oeuvre

[Seb Thirlway]

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From: s~Z <keithmar at jetlink.net>


>"His work, in its mischief-making badboy totality,
>has from the outset been not a quest but a masque,
>wherein the daunting modernist massif and its
>perversely silly, naughty, niggling parody coincide.
>I love this music because it makes me happy -- and
>it makes me happy because it refuses to sidestep,
>to underrate or even disrespect the tiring teasing
>perversity at the core of human behaviour; because
>even if it wanted to shill for pompous fraudulence,
>self-seriousness or fast-track fake enlightenment,
>it just couldn't."
>
>--Mark Sinker, re: Cecil Taylor, in closing essay in
>   this month's THE WIRE magazine.
>
Makes me wonder - could TRP be hanging around receiving this
list, or elsewhere on the Net where the enthusiasm for what he's
written is obvious?  what would he be thinking?
Just got back from playing a gig, and though I don't play
anywhere near as well as Cecil Taylor, I wouldn't know quite what
to do with it if someone started writing like this about my
playing....



seb