Cecil Taylor 80th Birthday Celebration September 24, 2009

CECIL TAYLOR 80th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
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CECIL TAYLOR AND TONY OXLEY

Ruby Flow­er Records, La Belle Usine asbl, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam are proud and honoured to pay tribute to Cecil Taylor for his 80th birth­day celebration. The American pianist, poet and dancer has been applauded a spe­cial breed of artist: brilliant, formidable and controversial, he has it all: the whole package of artistic gifts and in abundance.

The duo Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley is an ul­timate unison and the most unifying musical characteristic as they play is if they are one person. Oxley understands the complicated music, the dynam­ics, and the aspects of form Taylor constructs

Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley create an enormous palette of textures that can converge on the listeners and performers as a full wall of sound exploring an outstanding range of material. The scope of conception, plus the diversity and deep of Taylor and Oxley’s approach to playing, has contributed to cultivate an extremely multifaceted performance style exploring an array of musical intensities.

This duo confronts improvisation as a simultaneous emergence of attention and intention aiming to reach the challenge of a chamber music quintessence form accentuating possibilities to showcase accurate dialogues of voices.

Piano, percussion, electronic, poetry and dance tandems challenge each other with the combination. The duo has an enormous cornucopia of sound production and range along with their respective traditional settings. But in their hands of these two master sound producers, the instruments go beyond one another.