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Scope and Contents The Cecil Taylor Audiotape Collection consists of 176 cassettes and DATs made of performances, workshops, studio recordings, interviews, and talks that took place between 1962 and 2002, which were acquired by Blank Forms after the artist's death in 2018. The bulk of these tapes document live concerts, both solo and with Taylor’s working (and special, one-off) ensembles of various sizes, as well as a number of duet recordings made with trumpeter Bill Dixon. A number of these tapes...

Scope and Contents The Cecil Taylor Audiovisual Collection consists of 74 videocassettes in VHS and Betamax, as well as Mini-DVs of performances, workshops, interviews, and talks that took place between 1984 and 2009 and which were acquired by Blank Forms after the creator’s death. While most of the material is otherwise unpublished and commercially unavailable, there are copies of documentaries Inside Out in the Open (Alan Roth, 2001) and The Way of...