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468:, just past mid-year, summer, 1976). While several conjunctures of Taylor's work may be understood as pathbreaking, it may be proposed that the art announced by him across that temporal-space emerged as radical and remained decisive in a singular manner throughout his itinerary of practice."
414:... Those albums provided a model for a new realm of improvisation, intellectual structure and emotion to explore with solo piano using a vocabulary that was very idiosyncratic to a particular composer. I consider myself as continuing the evolution of that idea, but in my own distinct way."
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1085:At Newport
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