Great history, one of your best entries tbh. ****, I could see a whole film being shot on the Ayler performance you described that could be really compelling even for someone who doesn't like jazz if it didn't fall into your typical biopic shortfalls.
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Ayler states that one thing he didn’t like about Taylor was that he was “too hard”.
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That definitely makes sense considering their performance styles. Ayler loved him a good explosion but he also let it breathe. Cecil Taylor was all about the explosion and while he would let it breathe, it was usually heavy breathing. I guess you could say that Ayler's playing was a state of existence while Taylor's playing was more like a good fu
ck. Both very powerful and necessary things, but with very different approaches despite similar extremes.