LITTLE WALTER’S “Blues with a Feeling” is a majestic song whose title is kind of redundant. Blues is a feeling, whether filtered through Hank Williams’s full-moon howling or channeled through Jimi Hendrix’s rumbustious guitar. The emotional impact arrives far in advance of any intellectual engagement. The same process applies to the music of progressive jazz legend Cecil Taylor, however complex, densely polychromatic, or elusive its relationship seems to rhythm—or, for that matter, blues. The connections to both are there if you listen closely without overthinking matters. {read}