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- Birth nameCecil Percival Taylor
- Cecil Taylor was born on March 25, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for A Christmas Tale (2008), Echo of an Era (1959) and Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A Film by Orson Welles (2011). He died on April 5, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- He was an avant-garde jazz pianist. He began studying piano at age 5, and later attended the New England Conservatory of Music.
- [Asked if he had been influenced by fellow jazz pianist Dave Brubeck]: When he's most interesting, he sounds like me.
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