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Cecil Taylor: A Piano is an Orchestra

Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 16 August 1975

...says CECIL TAYLOR, a controversial figure ever since he erupted at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 with his quartet, but even those who dislike what they think is an excessively technical approach to his music have to agree that he is arguably the greatest living master of jazz piano.

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