The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
1977 live album by Cecil Taylor
The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor | ||||
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Live album by Cecil Taylor | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Recorded | July 29, 1969 | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Label | Prestige | |||
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Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Cover | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969, and released on the Prestige label in 1977 as a 3-LP set. The album was originally released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght on the French Shandar label as a box set, consisting of three separate LPs in 1971.[3] It features a performance by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers and Andrew Cyrille.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow refers to this recording as "a real blowout" and "a major release," and states: "The music is unrelentingly intense and Taylor does not let up for a moment.... listeners new to Taylor's music should investigate his solo piano works first."[1]
Track listing
- All compositions by Cecil Taylor.
- "Second Act Of A (Part 1)" - 21:17
- "Second Act Of A (Part 2)" - 20:51
- "Second Act Of A (Part 3)" - 18:08
- "Second Act Of A (Part 4)" - 16:11
- "Second Act Of A (Part 5)" - 12:45
- "Second Act Of A (Part 6)" - 20:38
- Recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969
Personnel
- Cecil Taylor: piano
- Jimmy Lyons: alto saxophone
- Sam Rivers: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Andrew Cyrille: drums
References
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- Jazz Advance
- Looking Ahead!
- Stereo Drive
- Love for Sale
- The World of Cecil Taylor
- Air
- Cell Walk for Celeste
- Jumpin' Punkins
- New York City R&B
- Unit Structures
- Conquistador!
- Cecil Taylor Unit
- 3 Phasis
- Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
- Chinampas
- In Florescence
- Momentum Space
- At Newport
- Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
- Student Studies
- Praxis
- The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
- Indent
- Akisakila
- Solo
- Spring of Two Blue J's
- Silent Tongues
- Dark to Themselves
- Air Above Mountains
- Live in the Black Forest
- One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
- Historic Concerts
- It Is in the Brewing Luminous
- Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!
- The Eighth
- Garden
- Iwontunwonsi
- Amewa
- For Olim
- Olu Iwa
- Live in Bologna
- Live in Vienna
- Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil
- In East Berlin
- Regalia
- The Hearth
- Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
- Remembrance
- Pleistozaen Mit Wasser
- Spots, Circles, and Fantasy
- Legba Crossing
- Erzulie Maketh Scent
- Leaf Palm Hand
- Looking (Berlin Version) Solo
- Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio
- Looking (Berlin Version) Corona
- Celebrated Blazons
- 2 Ts for a Lovely T
- CT: The Dance Project
- Double Holy House
- Nailed
- Melancholy
- The Tree of Life
- Always a Pleasure
- The Light of Corona
- Almeda
- Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1
- Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2
- Lifting the Bandstand
- Algonquin
- Incarnation
- The Willisau Concert
- The Owner of the River Bank
- All the Notes
- Taylor/Dixon/Oxley
- The Last Dance
- Mixed