Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Cecil Taylor to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 135 Fort Greene Place
135 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn: He was already living in this row house when he bought it in 1984, and he lived here until his death in 2018. It went on the market in 2020.
Source: bkmag.com
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Five Spot Café
1956–1962The jazz club’s first home, on Cooper Square from 1956 to 1962. Cecil Taylor’s band played the club’s first official engagement, and on 18 July 1957 Thelonious Monk’s quartet, with John Coltrane, began a six-month residency, Monk’s first New York engagement after a long suspension of his cabaret card. The building was demolished in 1962, per Wikipedia.
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