The World of Cecil Taylor
The World of Cecil Taylor | ||||
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Studio album by Cecil Taylor | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | October 12–13, 1960 | |||
Genre | Avant-garde jazz | |||
Length | 47:21 | |||
Label | Candid | |||
Cecil Taylor chronology | ||||
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The World of Cecil Taylor is an album by Cecil Taylor, recorded for the Candid label in October 1960. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles. Alternate takes from these sessions were released on Air in 1987. A 1971 reissue of the original album on the Barnaby label was also titled Air.
Some of the tracks the pianist chose to release on this album were improvised, single-take pieces, while others were the result of multiple takes. The track titled "Air" required 29 takes before being approved by Taylor.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick wrote: "One can only imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was in 1960 when this session was recorded. This is a wonderful document from early in Taylor's career, when he was midway between modernist approaches to standard material and his own radical experiments that would come to full fruition a few years hence... What's extra amazing is how deeply entrenched the blues feel and pulse are in this music, already bound for the further reaches of abstraction. They never left Taylor, although many listeners have difficulty discerning them. This session, which has been released under numerous guises, is an especially fine introduction to his work, keeping enough of a foot in 'traditional' jazz forms to offer one purchase while dangling breathtaking visions of the possible within one's reach. A classic recording that belongs in anyone's collection."[2]
Track listing
- All compositions by Cecil Tayor except as indicated
- "Air" [Take 28] - 8:41
- "This Nearly Was Mine" [Take 1] (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 10:51
- "Port of Call" [Take 2] - 4:22
- "E.B." [Take 2] - 9:59
- "Lazy Afternoon" (John Latouche, Jerome Moross) - 14:52
- Recorded Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, October 12 & 13, 1960
Personnel
- Cecil Taylor - piano
- Buell Neidlinger - bass
- Denis Charles - drums
- Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 5)
References
- ^ "Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor". Jazz Messengers. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- ^ a b AllMusic Review
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 190. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1380. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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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