Cecil Taylor
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as having been one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as "eighty-eight tuned drums" (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano). He has also been described as "like Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings".
His composition Indent (1973) is on Thurston Moore's Top Ten Free Jazz Underground (1995).
Contents |
[edit]
Discography
[edit]
As leader
| Title | Album detail | |
|---|---|---|
| Additional information | ||
| Jazz Advance |
| |
| At Newport |
| with the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory |
| Looking Ahead! |
| |
| Stereo Drive |
| also released as Hard Driving Jazz and Coltrane Time |
| Love for Sale |
| |
| The World of Cecil Taylor |
| |
| Air |
| |
| Cell Walk for Celeste |
| |
| Jumpin' Punkins |
| |
| New York City R&B |
| with Buell Neidlinger |
| Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come |
| |
| Unit Structures |
| |
| Conquistador! |
| |
| Student Studies, 1966 |
| also released as The Great Paris Concert |
| Praxis, 1968 |
| |
| The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor, 1969 |
| also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght |
| Indent, 1973 |
| |
| Akisakila, 1973 |
| |
| Solo, 1973 |
| |
| Spring of Two Blue J's, 1973 |
| |
| Silent Tongues, 1974 |
| |
| Dark to Themselves, 1976 |
| |
| Air Above Mountains, 1976 |
| |
| Embraced, 1977 |
| with Mary Lou Williams |
| Cecil Taylor Unit, 1978 |
| |
| 3 Phasis, 1978 |
| |
| Live in the Black Forest, 1978 |
| |
| One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, 1978 |
| |
| Historic Concerts, 1979 |
| with Max Roach |
| It is in the Brewing Luminous, 1980 |
| |
| Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!, 1980 |
| |
| The Eighth, 1981 |
| |
| Garden, 1981 |
| |
| Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants), 1984 |
| |
| Iwontunwonsi, 1986 |
| |
| Amewa, 1986 |
| |
| For Olim, 1986 |
| |
| Olu Iwa, 1986 |
| |
| Live in Bologna, 1987 |
| |
| Live in Vienna, 1987 |
| |
| Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil, 1987 |
| |
| Chinampas, 1987 |
| |
| Riobec, 1988 |
| Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer |
| In East Berlin, 1988 |
| |
| Regalia, 1988 |
| Cecil Taylor & Paul Lovens |
| The Hearth, 1988 |
| |
| Alms/Tiergarten (Spree), 1988 |
| |
| Remembrance, 1988 |
| |
| Pleistozaen Mit Wasser, 1988 |
| |
| Spots, Circles, and Fantasy, 1988 |
| |
| Legba Crossing, 1988 |
| |
| Erzulie Maketh Scent, 1988 |
| |
| Leaf Palm Hand, 1988 |
| |
| In Florescence, 1989 |
| |
| Looking (Berlin Version) Solo, 1989 |
| |
| Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio, 1989 |
| |
| Looking (Berlin Version) Corona, 1989 |
| |
| Celebrated Blazons, 1990 |
| |
| 2Ts for a Lovely T, 1990 |
| 10 CD, Limited Edition |
| Double Holy House, 1990 |
| |
| Nailed, 1990 |
| |
| Melancholy, 1990 |
| Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs |
| The Tree of Life, 1991 |
| live piano solo |
| Always a Pleasure, 1993 |
| |
| Almeda, 1996 |
| Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström |
| The Light of Corona, 1996 |
| Cecil Taylor, Harri Sjöström |
| Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, vol. 1 & 2, 1998 |
| with Harri Sjöström |
| Algonquin, 1998 |
| Great Performances From The Library Of Congress – Vol. 18 |
| Momentum Space, 1998 |
| with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones |
| Incarnation, 1999 |
| |
| The Willisau Concert, 2000 |
| at the Jazzfestival Willisau |
| Complicité, 2000 |
| the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada) |
| The Owner of the River Bank, 2000 |
| with the Italian Instabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia (South Italy) |
| Taylor/Dixon/Oxley, 2002 |
| the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville |
| The Last Dance, 2009 |
| with Dominic Duval |
[edit]
As sideman
- Gil Evans Orchestra: Into the Hot, 1961 (features tracks also released on Mixed)
- Jazz Composer's Orchestra: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, 1968 (Taylor featured on 2 tracks)
- Friedrich Gulda: Nachricht vom Lande, 1976 (Taylor featured on 3 tracks)
- Tony Williams: The Joy of Flying, 1978 (Taylor featured on 1 track)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago: Thelonious Sphere Monk, 1990 (Taylor featured on 3 tracks)
[edit]
Compilation
- Mixed (Impulse!) (Release date: 1998) (with Roswell Rudd)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Cecil Taylor" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
