Somewhat surprising
attack on Cecil Taylor by Hill (translation mine):
Quote:
"A certain generation, Cecil Taylor chief among them, decided - to please journalists - to abandon the feeling that was the essence of black music. They all sought out teaching posts to avoid playing in front of an audience they were contemptful of."
Hill regrets that his music, jazz, no longer draws crowds. He holds responsible the musicians who wanted to extract swing from its condition and, in a way, ennoble it by intellectualising it.
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After mentioning his support for Jason Moran (but what does he think of Jack Reilly?), he calls the new generation "the most captivating avant-garde since the sixties."
I'm sure some people would accuse Hill of the things he's accusing others of, but listen to "Dance With Death," which is a fairly direct predecessor of "Time Lines"'s warmth and lyrical quality. Maybe Hill himself would say that his earlier Blue Note albums were over-intellectualised/too difficult?