| LC control no. | no 91017365 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Taylor, Cecil, 1929-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Taylor, Cecil Percival, 1929-2018 Taylor, Cecil, 1933- Taylor, Cecil (Jazz musician) |
| See also | Corporate body: Cecil Taylor Unit |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0001 1497 228X 114710560 Q363908 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Corona (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | [1929-03-25,1931-03-25,1933-03-25] 1929-03-15 |
| Death date | 2018-04-05 2018-04-05 |
| Place of birth | Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Affiliation | New England Conservatory of Music Cecil Taylor Unit Jazz Composers' Guild (Organization) |
| Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Pianists Composers Poets Music arranger |
| Found in | Air [SR] 197-?: labels (Cecil Taylor) container (jazz pianist, composer) LC data base, 7-11-91 (hdg.: Taylor, Cecil, 1933- ) New Grove dict. of jazz, 1988 (Taylor, Cecil (Percival), pianist, composer; b. 3-15-1929) Buholzer, M. Auf der Suche nach Cecil Taylor, 1990: p. 151 (b. 3-25-1933, Long Island City (New York); Taylor has said that in various biographies the given birthdate 3-15-1931/33 is incorrect) Cecil Taylor, 2003: t.p. (b. 1929) p. 1, etc. (Cecil Perceval Taylor; b. Mar. 25, 1929; cites e-mail to author from Taylor's personal assistant and companion, quoting Taylor, who told him on Mar. 24, 2003 that the following day was his 74th birthday) Grove music online, Apr. 20, 2006: Jazz (Taylor, Cecil (Percival); b. Mar. 15, 1929, New York; American composer, pianist, and leader; "For many years he avoided divulging his year of birth, which was thought to be 1933; it is actually 1929, as Taylor told Whitney Balliett and as confirmed privately by Gary Giddins, who examined Taylor's passport.") Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Taylor, Cecil; jazz musician, composer, arranger, pianist; born 15 March 1929 in New York, United States; studied piano and music theory at the New England Conservatory of Music (1952); recorded Jazz Advance (1956); performed at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival; Down Beat magazine named him the year's "new star" on piano (1962); helped form the Jazz Composers' Guild (1964); led his own Cecil Taylor Unit (1960s-1970s); worked with the most advanced American and European improvisers (1979)) New York times online, viewed April 13, 2018 (obituary dated April 6, 2018: Cecil Taylor; born Cecil Percival Taylor, March 15, 1929, in Long Island City, Queens, and grew up in nearby Corona, died Thursday [April 5, 2018], at his home in Brooklyn, aged 89; a pianist who challenged the jazz tradition that produced him and became one of the most bracing, rhapsodic, abstract and original improvisers of his time; Taylor wrote music, led bands and for decades worked, as many jazz musicians do, in nightclubs and at festivals; in concert, he also recited his own poems -- his motions around the instrument and the bandstand were part of his performance too) Wikipedia, April 13, 2018 (Cecil Taylor; born Cecil Percival Taylor, March 25, 1929, Corona, Queens, New York City; died April 5, 2018, Brooklyn, New York City; American pianist and poet) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 97876466 |
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