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Cecil Taylor: Five Spot, New York, NY

Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, May 1975

QUINTESSENTIAL JAZZ club, even has patina of history: the perfect place for Cecil Taylor to express his music after a long hiatus. The small stage was dominated by the huge piano, looking mostly like a racing schooner, sails full into the wind, sitting at anchor, waiting.

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