Recap: Cecil Taylor Conference

[Joe]

Unit Structures: The Art of Cecil Taylor
October 23-26, 2019
The Graduate Center, CUNY and Brooklyn College

A report by David Grundy

https://streamsofexpression.blogspot.com/2020/02/unit-structures-art-of-cecil-taylor.html

Not familiar with this blog, but there's some other write-ups here that look worthy of investigation, including this recent piece on Alan Shorter: https://streamsofexpression.blogspot.com/2020/03/why-alan-shorters-parabolic-free-jazz.html

Also worth noting: CUNY will soon be publishing two Cecil-related chapbooks:

1. Archie Rand: Eulogy for Cecil Taylor
2. Cecil Taylor: Memorial Scrapbook & Sessiongraphy. Edited by Ammiel Alcalay & Michelle Yom

Details here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=53654 and here: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/lost-and-found/publications

 

Edited 1 Apr 2020 by Joe

[mjazzg]

Thanks for posting this

[clifford_thornton]

I was only at the final night's performance (Karen Borca-led big band), but that was excellent.