Cecil Taylor
Day 2
#51 – Cecil Percival Taylor (b.1929). American pianist and poet. Classically trained and often acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. Albums include: Unit Structures (1966), Conquistador! (1966) and Silent Tongues (1974).
Free jazz is not to everyone’s taste. Something that not everyone can understand, something that doesn’t always make sense. I wanted to try and capture this in some way. Cecil Taylor was also a poet. Could this be expressed? This quote of his summed up his music and split nicely into four sections. Laying it out like a poem, but making the letters leap a little and keeping the rest simple worked best.
1 hour
One of the first designs, looking at a different typeface to express the music.
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘Unit Structures’