Chinampas #5’04 [Cecil Taylor]

Cecil Taylor is one of the most (in)famous musicians of the twentieth century. Yet he is also a poet whose work is of considerable interest, despite the comparative lack of critical attention it has received. One of the reasons for such neglect may be that Taylor as poet has not had a consistent or comprehensive publishing history. Poetry and writing has appeared as liner notes to albums intermittently since the 60s (most famously on his Blue Note record ’Unit Structures’), and, from the 80s, Taylor began t