Cecil taylor biography book

          In the Brewing Luminous is the first full-length biography of Cecil Taylor..

          This is a book about one of the 20th century's greatest creative minds, a man who unshackled his own music from all external limitations.

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          The Making Of Momentum Space

          A week after [a performance at New York’s Iridium], Taylor entered Avatar Studios in New York with producer John Snyder, whose vision had shaped [his 1990 solo album] In Florescence.

          They were joined by tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman and drummer Elvin Jones for two days of sessions that would yield the album Momentum Space, released [in the US] in 2000. Although the cover credits all three musicians equally, Momentum Space is in fact a Dewey Redman album, with Taylor as sideman.

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        2. Philip Freeman shares an excerpt from his new biography of Cecil Taylor, which takes the reader from the pianist and composer's birth in to his death.
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          6. Snyder had gotten a grant from the Creative Music Institute to make an album with an under recorded jazz musician of his choosing. “And I thought, well, shit, who is that? And then I thought, Dewey.”

          Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1931, Redman was best known for his work in Keith Jarrett’s and Ornette Coleman’s bands in the 1970s, though he had recorded several i