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**Frinzer** · 10-24-2005, 08:00 AM

I met Al Neil my first day in Vancouver, in 1963. It was at the Flat Five (it might have been known as the Blue Horn by then). A couple of years later when he was doing some of those performances you mention, Gregg, I tried to get him over to my place to listen to some Cecil Taylor albums. He’d never heard Cecil and told me, “People say I play like Cecil Taylor so I’d rather not hear him.” I said I didn’t think he played anything like Cecil and would probably find him interesting. He still refused.

Needless to say he eventually heard him. Al was there every night when Cecil played both at Oil Can Harry’s and the Vancouver Jazz Society in the late seventies.

10-24-2005, 08:00 AM	#1
Frinzer Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	I met Al Neil my first day in Vancouver, in 1963. It was at the Flat Five (it might have been known as the Blue Horn by then). A couple of years later when he was doing some of those performances you mention, Gregg, I tried to get him over to my place to listen to some Cecil Taylor albums. He’d never heard Cecil and told me, “People say I play like Cecil Taylor so I’d rather not hear him.” I said I didn’t think he played anything like Cecil and would probably find him interesting. He still refused. Needless to say he eventually heard him. Al was there every night when Cecil played both at Oil Can Harry’s and the Vancouver Jazz Society in the late seventies.
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