#BlueNote #CecilTaylor https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kH0FGdBcXTDB64YLiLBaZMltflTs14-T0

August sees the end (for now?) of #BlueNote’s classic #Jazz reissue series with 2 important titles:

1. #AnthonyWilliams – “Spring” (1965)

2. #CecilTaylor – “Unit Structures” (1966)

https://www.bluenote.com/classic-vinyl-reissue-series-2023/

Cecil Taylor - Jitney No. 2

From the live recording [1974 Montreux Jazz Festival] Silent Tongues

#CecilTaylor #jazz

Cecil Taylor - Montreux - 1974

#CecilTaylor #jazz

#NowPlaying Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Shandar, France 1972).

Cecil Taylor - piano, voice
Jimmy Lyons - alto sax
Sam Rivers - tenor & soprano sax
Andrew Cyrille - drums

Recorded live on July 29, 1969 at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. This prestation is truly magical!

With the acquisition of volume 3 a few monts ago, my collection is now complete.

#CecilTaylor #FreeJazz #ShandarRecords

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Freeness

Cecil Taylor:
🎵 Chinampas #343

#CecilTaylor

#NowPlaying Cecil Taylor - Live In The Black Forest (MPS Records, 1979).

Back in the music room after a week away 😊

Recorded live on German radio, two long tracks from Taylor with Raphé Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Sirone and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

Beyond awesome.

#CecilTaylor #MPSRecords #FreeJazz

Boo-Hooray’s Free Jazz New York Jazz catalog is a cornucopia of curiosities https://www.boo-hooray.com/images/upload/catalog-18-free-jazz-new-york-jazz.pdf #jazztodon #jazz #ceciltaylor #heycecil

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! / Starting my day with this amazing album. #NowPlaying #Jazz #CecilTaylor @vinylrecords

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone

Cecil Taylor:
🎵 The Question

#CecilTaylor

https://open.spotify.com/track/1nWQTJah1ioIVjjWHjQVeS

@icastico @vinylrecords Arista-Freedom LPs were so unassuming with those standardised cover designs, it's mind-blowing to think this got artists like #AnthonyBraxton, #AlbertAyler, #CecilTaylor etc out in front of the mainstream, record-buying public in the increasing staid middle 70s

Open Plan: Cecil Taylor: Whitney Museum of American Art

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz7HOPRck50

#CecilTaylor #Jazz #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Improvisation #AfricanAmerican ❤️❤️

I'm always looking for recommendations for good jazz histories and bios. Lately I've been focused on free/modern jazz, but I'll read anything well written!

Here are some of my picks, in case anyone is interested:

* As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz by Valerie Wilmer
* The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 by John Litweiler
* Black Music by A.B. Spellman
* The Importance of Being Eric Dolphy by Raymond Horricks
* Ascension: John Coltrane And His Quest by Eric Nisenson
* The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John Szwed

#freejazz
#sunra
#ericdolphy
#johncoltrane
#ornette
#ceciltaylor
#charlesmingus

https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=Zf8ir_gvbwA&listen=false

cecil taylor -- indent

(solo show)

#cecilTaylor #genius #jazz #totalFuckingGenius

once i saw #cecilTaylor
give a free-wheeling seminar at the new england conservatory

i remember his musical language moved me
even if i couldn't really follow his spoken language

RIP 🎹 🌌