The Cecil Taylor Quartet Air

Title: The Cecil Taylor Quartet Air
Year/Genre: 1960, Jazz (Avant-Garde)
Condition: VG++

Cultural Facts:

1. One of the early documents of Taylors split with jazz polite society normsclubs and critics often treated his sets like a provocation.

2. His scene survived through small-room bookings, arts patrons, and European interest when U.S. jazz institutions were slow to back the avant-garde.

3. The quartet era sits right before the loft-jazz explosionTaylors approach became part of the blueprint for NYCs later DIY jazz spaces.

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