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Cecil Taylor has evolved you
TAYLOR HAS ALSO SAID THAT POETRY saved his life, and he has sometimes incorporated it in his work. He calls Billie Holiday and Ben Webster poets. So it's fitting that his appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties would be on a day shared with a number of spoken-word artists. (Maybe he'll perform some of his own poetry, which is half imagery, half rain-forest chatter.)
You may or may not know about the folks on the Thursday ATP bill: John Sinclair (White Panther theoretician), Smog (dark songwriter Bill Callahan), Lydia Lunch (New York no-waver, filmmaker, word-spewer, troublemaker), Ira Cohen ("electronic multimedia shaman" -- see Jay Babcock's interview herein), Gerard Malanga (poet-photographer best known for Warhol associations) and Eileen Myles (politicized poet). Worthies all.
But try to catch Nathaniel Mackey if you can. He's an educator, editor (Hambone), poet and novelist whose evolutionary way with words is his own. Let's open his Bedouin Hornbookat random: "The composition, he said, had begun millions of years ago, the ambiguous verdict of a galaxywide dispute between conscious and mechanical forces." Y'know?
If you're reading this on Thursday, March 14, you can catch Cecil Taylor (11:15 p.m.) and the rest (Mackey begins at 7:10 p.m.) tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall.
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