Cecil Taylor

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1989-12-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

106,816

Total plays

845,425

Cecil Percival Taylor (New York City, March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist, composer and poet. Cecil Taylor is generally acknowledged to be one of the pioneers and great innovative sources of free jazz. Classically trained, his music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His piano technique has been likened to percussion <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,786x

2. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,422x

3. The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners

   · 2019 · cited 21,711x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,613x

5. Measuring Service Quality: A Reexamination and Extension

   · 1992 · cited 14,622x

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Quotes

• “I don't expect people who listen to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer to come hear me. I accept that reality.”
• “Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"”
• “You practice so you can invent. Discipline? No. The joy of practicing leads you to the celebration of the creation.”

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