Pianist Cecil Taylor Makes Poetry Of His Jazz
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1987
"GREAT MUSICIANS are more than musicians they are poets and spiritual forces," said pianist Cecil Taylor. "It is the sensitivity and the concept of the person playing that is most important to me."
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