Cecil Taylor Movies

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of post-war music. Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone the maestro...

Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian...

French television documentary about Cecil Taylor.

1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor

Photos and interviews by Livio Minafra, carried out between Ruvo di Puglia and Paris between 2000 and 2002. Interview Renato Geremia, Guido Mazzon, Martin Mayes, Marcello Lorrai and Francesco Martinelli. Taylor and Instabile video concert commissioned to Giovanni Visaggio, Video Art Studio by Pino...

In 1973, Leonid Samuilovich flees the USSR and lands a job at the BBC in London. Five years later, radio host Alexei Leonidov starts releasing clandestine recordings smuggled from totalitarian countries via intricate cloak-and-dagger operations. Today, 86-year-old music producer Leo Feigin sits on...