What is Cecil Taylor?
{{Infobox musical artist |name = Cecil Taylor |image = Taylor Cecil moersfestival 120508.jpg |image_size = |background = non_vocal_instrumentalist |birth_name = Cecil Percival Taylor |alias = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|3|25}} |birth_place = [[Queens]], [[New York City]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2018|4|5|1929|3|25}} |death_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], U.S. |instrument = Piano |genre = [[Jazz]], [[avant-garde jazz]], [[free jazz]] |occupation = Musician, bandleader, composer, poet |years_active = 1956–2018 |label = Transition, [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]], [[Freedom Records|Freedom]], [[Hathut Records|Hathut]], [[Enja Records|Enja]], [[FMP/Free Music Production|FMP]] |associated_acts = [[Steve Lacy]], [[Jimmy Lyons]], [[Archie Shepp]], [[Albert Ayler]], [[Buell Neidlinger]], [[Alan Silva]], [[William Parker (musician)|William Parker]], [[Sunny Murray]], [[Andrew Cyrille]], [[Tony Oxley]], [[Anthony Braxton]], [[Alan Silva]], [[Art Ensemble of Chicago]], [[John Coltrane]] }} '''Cecil Percival Taylor''' (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Schray|first1=Martin|title=Cecil Taylor (1929 - 2018)|url=http://www.freejazzblog.org/2018/04/cecil-taylor-1929-2018.html|website=The Free Jazz Collective|access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Le pianiste de free jazz Cecil Taylor est mort|url=http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/le-pianiste-de-free-jazz-cecil-taylor-est-mort_80045/|access-date=6 April 2018|work=Libération|date=April 6, 2018|archive-date=6 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406225830/http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/le-pianiste-de-free-jazz-cecil-taylor-est-mort_80045/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Ribi|first1=Thomas|title=Ein Gründervater des Free Jazz –Cecil Taylor ist gestorben|url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/ein-gruendervater-des-free-jazz-cecil-taylor-ist-gestorben-ld.1374892|access-date=6 April