Word: jazze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beyond calling it sui generis. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Taylor draws deeply upon the twentieth-century European art music school of composers such as Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, and Igor Stravinsky. However, his professional experience from an early age came in the jazz world, the network of bars and nightclubs where the African-American musical idiom was being developed...
...musical rebel from the start, Cecil Taylor was either ignored or actively denounced by much of the jazz world when he first started performing...
Just what was so radical about Taylor's music? In essence, Cecil Taylor broke every rule, and smashed every convention that had been held sacred by the jazz world. His all-out assault on the hapless, half-tuned pianos that sat on the bandstands of most clubs meant that he not only broke the accepted standards of melody, harmony, and song structure, but also countless pianos themselves...
...Moments: Red Hot + Cool (GRP). The goal: to raise money for the fight against AIDS. The high concept: to match some of the most | exciting performers in hip-hop (the bands Digable Planets and Us3, bassist- rapper Me'Shell NdegeOcello and others) with some of the finest performers in jazz (including saxophonist Joshua Redman, trumpeter Donald Byrd and keyboardist Herbie Hancock) and create a benefit CD of jazz-rap songs. The result: a landmark album that brilliantly harnesses the fire of rap and the cool of jazz, transcending genres and generations...
Blood on the Fields. Marsalis' lush, undulating jazz composition, performed at Lincoln Center this April and broadcast on National Public Radio, captured the pain of American slavery in piercing trumpet peals and the joy of liberation in the playful bleats of trombones. The three-hour big-band piece featured singer Cassandra Wilson, who, with her performance in Fields and the success of her transcendent album Blue Light 'Til Dawn, came into her own this year as the reigning queen of jazz...