““Fools don’t think I play jazz,” said Cecil Taylor in 1965, hitting the piano as if it were a kick drum in a grimy Manhattan attic, “[but] music is an attitude, a group of symbols of a way of life.” Val Wilmer’s brilliant As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, shows Taylor as the avant-garde genius disguised as tradesman, John Coltrane as spiritual leader searching for ”
“The third installment of Georgia Anne Muldrow’s solo jazz project is a powerfully resonant and spiritual record, a call-and-response between herself and a history of Black music.”
