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Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments
‘You can’t rehearse the unknown’ – it’s attributed to Wayne Shorter but it was also a credo for Miles during his peak years of 1957-1970, calling on his players to do their ‘woodshedding’ on the stage rather than in the practice room. Listening to Fragments, the blistering new Cecil Taylor Unit two-CD/three-LP set recorded live […]
Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava: 2 Blues For Cecil
Even as streaming platforms gain an ever more forceful stranglehold on recorded music, savvy record companies can still deliver impactful physical products which could never be replicated in the digital space. Finnish label TUM are doing that in spades. A key artefact is the recent album by Andrew Cyrille, William Parker and Enrico Rava, 2 […]
Sounds Of Surprise 