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...Monday, January 23rd at one o'clock in the afternoon, Harvard's own radio station WHRB 95.3 FM will broadcast a special thirty-hour feature on the music and life of contemporary pianist Cecil Taylor...
...WHRB's traditional reading period Orgies, this program will cover Taylor's 40-year career in depth through recordings from 1955 to the present, as well as a series of interviews with Taylor and other musicians associated with...
...challenges of interacting with such a complex, larger-than-life personality are magnified in a musical setting. The WHRB orgy will feature interviews with six of Taylor's former sidemen, including such well-known saxophonists as Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp, and David Murray, who discuss their experiences and struggles working with Taylor. When asked whether it was difficult to play with Taylor, Lacy answered simply, "It was impossible. He was so fast, and so way beyond everybody that I had heard." The piece de resistance of the orgy will be the taped interview with The Maestro, as Taylor is often...
Perhaps the ultimate example of the nuclear energy of Taylor's playing is the 1969 album The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (airing on WHRB at around 2:00 a.m.), where one composition lasts for over two hours, taking up six sides of an LP box set. Not recommended for the faint of heart...
...level of telepathic musical interaction in Taylor's groups starting around 1963 with the addition of drummer Steve Murray and saxophonist Jimmy Lyons is startling. These musicians are thinking so fast! On a recording such as the 1966 album Conquistador (airing on WHRB around 11:00 p.m.), the group produces music as a seamless whole. It is for this reason that Taylor chose to name his groups "The Cecil Taylor Unit," which he takes to mean, "a community of men feeding each other, relating to each other, and speaking to each other in musical, architectural sounds which have been passed...