Cecil Taylor - All The Notes

Cecil Taylor - All The Notes: "To say Taylor is larger than life is an understatement. His musicianship is informed by a deep intellectual underpinning. One of the earliest sequences shows him seated at his grand piano, poring over a book of architecture and discussing his pianism in terms of structurel integrity on the same level as bridge spans. His scores, 'unhooked from the stave paper and using 'not notes -- alphabets', look more like calculus that might for example, tell you the density of suns. Many insights into his complex superclustered playing are gleaned: that for example he has forsaken standard intervels such as the perfect fourth and fifth, that he is interested in perfecting contrary motions of the hands; and that he spends hours each day playing his piano at home, staring at the movements of a tree that grows right outside his window. "

This is a film I need to see.