By David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express The album’s title is true. The 1973 performance documented here (and released in its entirety for the first time) marked the pianist’s return to the stage. Cecil Taylor was in the vanguard of jazz, spoken of in the same sentences as Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus. Read more here.
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REVIEW: Quintet Sessions 1979 by Wolfgang Lackershmid & Chet Baker – Shepherd Express
By David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express Trumpeter Chet Baker embodied understated cool in the 1950s jazz, singing like a ghostly memory and playing notes as evanescent as a light scrim of fog over San Francisco Bay. Drugs were his tragedy, and he spent the closing decades of life picking up gigs and stumbling through relative obscurity. … Read More


