Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor
THE LATEST FROM MARY LOU WILLIAMS & CECIL TAYLOR
Mary Lou Williams & Cecil Taylor
Embraced
CD $14.98 $10.98
RELEASE DATE: 18 Sep 1995
PACD-2620-108-2
GENRE: JAZZ
Embraced is a momentous meeting of keyboard giants. Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) was, in fact, a one-woman history of improvised piano styles who also happened to be a first-class arranger and composer. Cecil Taylor (b. 1933) is nothing less than the most galvanizing and controversial piano improviser of, the past 40 years. Williams and Taylor, sometimes accompanied by bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Mickey Roker, joined forces before a live New York audience in 1977. While there are instance… MORE
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