Bill Dixon/Cecil Taylor: Duets 1992

Listening to abstract music isn’t for everybody. But for those who go with flow of freely improvised “jazz”—performed with no written score and no rehearsal and absent the familiar touchstones of premeditated melody, harmony, and rhythm—this previously unissued meeting of two avant-garde giants is audio manna from heaven. Perhaps literally, as trumpeter Dixon, the organizer of the landmark 1964 “October Revolution in Jazz,” died in 2010, age 84, and pianist Taylor, an “October Revolution” participant and free jazz founding father of greater renown, passed in 2018, age 89. After Taylor’s 1966 Conquistador, the crossing of their paths was never documented …