Cecil Taylor obituary

Jazz pianist with a radical improvisation style described as one of the most ‘incorrigibly sublime’ figures in the recent history of musicThe maverick African-American jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor, who has died aged 89, gave an impression of constant motion and restless speed. He fused a virtuosic classical technique and an improvisational jazz one in a frenzy of fingerwork augmented by pounding fists and elbows, blurring quicksilver sequences of notes into firestorms of sound.