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Jazz Avant-Garde by Cecil Taylor

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  • Jazz music is a vivid, unique and distinctive phenomenon of the world culture, which is a grand achievement of many-years musical practice of humanity

  • Since the middle of the XX century, more and more trends have begun to emerge in jazz music, which led to the understanding of philosophical and psychological issues, in particular, ethical, aesthetic, social and other aspects

  • According to the research findings, we conclude that Cecil Taylor made a significant contribution to the development of modern culture

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Introduction

Since the middle of the XX century, more and more trends have begun to emerge in jazz music, which led to the understanding of philosophical and psychological issues, in particular, ethical, aesthetic, social and other aspects. In the second half of the XX century there appeared jazz avant-garde – an entirely new cultural phenomenon that has its own history and philosophy, genre and style. In musicology, this concept can be called “abstract jazz”, “new jazz”, “free jazz”, etc. Among them are composer and pianist Cecil Taylor, who was a compelling opponent of jazz traditions His style is unique, his music is one of the most striking examples of musical avant-garde in the history of art. Taylor’s avant-garde activity and to identify its place in the world of modern artistic culture

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