Playlist Addition: Cecil Taylor Oeuvre

[s~Z]

"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.