-- JazzTimes «The visionary 87 - year -
old jazz pianist Cecil Taylor received a standing ovation as he walked slowly to the stage at the Whitney Museum of American Art, using a cane and holding his assistant's arm.»
I sat for hours on the bench beside a sixty - two - year -
old jazz pianist as he practiced his scales and played me some of his new compositions, and I observed Roma, the fifty - seven - year - old laboratory scientist in her first year of teaching adolescents in an after - school program.