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“It was raining and the basketball was on, and I was downstairs making dinner, and I heard the piano go… this most fucking beautiful, wistful, slow, almost like blues… and it was the sound of the rain on the roof and this basketball match going and these notes, so much space between the notes…”
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Cecil Taylor: The Final Years
The Kyoto Prize is not as well-known as the Guggenheim fellowship, or the MacArthur grant, both of which pianist, composer and musical seeker Cecil Taylor received during his lifetime. But it is more exclusive — only three, or, at most,…
