Monday, March 18, 2019

New Single Release: "I Am an Orchestra: A Tribute to Cecil Taylor"!

The legendary pianist Cecil Taylor passed away almost a year ago, on April 5, 2018.

 To honor him, I released this new single: a poem to the accompaniment of brilliant pianist Scott R. Looney. Engineering is by my longtime collaborator, James (Jim) Gardiner, at Pajama Studios. 
You can check out my blog post reminiscing about my personal contact with Cecil in childhood and thereafter. Plus there you can find a written version of the poem we just recorded. Reading it, I see it took on another life in multiple dimensions existing in this musical dialogue with pianist Scott. 

 Here's some of where you can hear (stream, download, share) this exciting music, or see all platform links at right:




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 May this piece send up a flare to the utterly unique genius of Cecil, wherever he is. 
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