Oct 8, 2024 1:11 PM
Cecil Taylor: The Final Years
The Kyoto Prize is not as well-known as the Guggenheim fellowship, or the MacArthur grant, both of which pianist,…
Cecil Taylor, one of the greatest pianists of the avant garde, was taken advantage of before his death in 2018.
Oct 8, 2024 1:11 PM
The Kyoto Prize is not as well-known as the Guggenheim fellowship, or the MacArthur grant, both of which pianist,…
Henry Grimes (1935–2020)
May 1, 2020 1:36 AM
Philadelphia-born bassist Henry Grimes, revered for his work alongside jazz titans, died April 15 at the age of 84,…
The Afterlife, by the trio The Comet Is Coming, will be available on Friday, Nov. 29, as part of the Record Store Day Black Friday retail event.
Nov 25, 2019 4:59 PM
Record collectors and vinyl fans are checking their bank accounts and mapping out their shopping routes for Black…
Back On Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings, an album of previously unreleased work by Wes Montgomery, is among the recordings being released Saturday for Record Store Day.
Apr 14, 2019 11:36 AM
In the United States, the middle of April means two things: Record Store Day and Tax Day. Vinyl LP collectors must…
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018)
Dec 4, 2020 12:00 PM
From jazz trumpeters and blues guitarists to genre-defining soul singers and avant-garde soothsayers, DownBeat presents…
Cecil Taylor—shown here performing in Cologne, Germany, in 1987—died April 5. He was 89.
Feb 24, 2020 10:17 AM
Trumpeter Eddie Gale only made one album—the legendary 1966 Unit Structures on Blue Note—with pianist Cecil Taylor,…
Cecil Taylor (1929–2018)
Apr 6, 2018 9:38 AM
Avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor has died at the age of 89, according to NPR.
Taylor, a National Endowment for the…
Nat Hentoff (1925–2017), seen here interviewing Quincy Jones
Feb 3, 2017 10:14 AM
Journalist Nat Hentoff, who wrote extensively on jazz and social issues, died Jan. 7 in his Manhattan home at age 91.…
Cecil Taylor, the subject of a career retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, listens to a performance there on April 16.
Apr 27, 2016 12:17 PM
On the opening day of Open Plan: Cecil Taylor, muttering had begun from assembled fans that Taylor—who was being feted…
Vijay Iyer (left) performs with Wadada Leo Smith at the Met Breuer on March 31.
Jun 28, 2016 12:44 PM
Throughout March, pianist Vijay Iyer’s tenure as Artist-In-Residence at the Met Breuer resulted in what was perhaps…
