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The Bebop Shop : New York Is Now: Ornette and Free Jazz : Cecil Taylor


	Cecil Taylor Trio & Quartet featuring Steve Lacy: Jazz Advance (CD: Fresh Sound) Since his first recordings, pianist Cecil Taylor’s astonishing performances were marked by such freedom of improvisation that careful, studied listening wasrequired. Cecil, whose bursts of staccato phrases and subtle use of motifs always implied a melody line, improvised in a manner that (still) defies description. He was constantly foraging in search of the dynamically fresh in his solos. Steve Lacy - who made a stylistic leap in joining Taylor’s free jazz quartet, is heard here also blowing a new sound through the horn. His soprano had the virility of a tenor and the manoeuvrability of an alto. These performances, which also feature Buell Neidlinger (bass) and Dennis Charles(drums), make for rewarding listening because of the constant probing and daring of the participants. (Discovery Records) Price: £17.99


Cecil Taylor Trio & Quintet: Love For Sale (CD: Blue Note) Price: £8.99


	Cecil Taylor: Looking Ahead (CD: Contemporary/ Fantasy- US Import) In June of 1958, Cecil Taylor was well into his transition from eccentric square peg in mainstream jazz to visionary of post-bop free music. That was the summer that he was to cause shock, consternation, and intrigued curiosity among various segments of the audience of the Newport Jazz Festival. He was beginning to be acknowledged as a developer of something new in jazz and, like all innovators, was being received enthusiastically by a few, warily by some, and not at all by most musicians, listeners, and critics. These pieces from his late early period are compact, accessible, and rhythmic in the sense of conventional swing. They owe a good deal to Taylor’s love of Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. But the guideposts to a freer jazz of the future are clearly heard. (Fantasy, Inc.) Price: £15.49


Cecil Taylor: The Complete Nat Hentoff Sessions (CD: Essential Jazz Classics, 4 CDs) 4CD set presenting all existing known recordings made by Cecil Taylor for the Candid Records label, plus 6 bonus tracks. Produced by jazz critic Nat Hentoff between 1960 and 1961, these recordings are essential to the history of modern jazz. Featured are such star sidemen as Archie Shepp, Clark Terry, Steve Lacy, Billy Higgins, and bassist Buell Neidlinger, who was the original leader on half of these sessions. A complete 1961 Taylor septet session produced by Creed Taylor, and the pianist's entire 1957 quartet performance at Newport are included as a bonus. Package includes a comprehensive 24-page booklet. (Proper Music) Price: £28.99


	Cecil Taylor: The World Of (CD: Candid) The World Of Cecil Taylor is the fifth studio album by radical, free jazz pianist pioneer, Cecil Taylor. Taylor's music is often described as ahead of its time. And its easy to imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was to this 1961 recording. It is arguably a tremendous departure from what jazz was widely considered to be at the time. At once a modern approach to standard material and a genre pushing exploration, it is a document of an artist pushing the boundaries of what jazz meant and where it was capable of going. This brand new reissue has been remastered from the original Candid Records master tapes by Bernie Grundman. (Proper Music) Price: £13.99


Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) The intrepid free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor produced some of his best work for Blue Note Records, including his explosive 1966 label debut Unit Structures featuring Eddie Gale on trumpet, Jimmy Lyons on alto saxophone, Ken McIntyre on alto saxophone, oboe, and bass clarinet, Henry Grimes and Alan Silva on bass, and Andrew Cyrille on drums. Over the course of four extended original pieces by Taylor—“Steps,” “Enter, Evening,” “Unit Structure/As Of A Now/Section,” and “Tales (8 Whisps)—the band scales the pinnacle of the mid-1960s jazz avant-garde with awe-inspiring performances that are by turns ferociously unbridled and intricately textured. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99


	Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) Limited Edition, 180g Pressing. Price: £25.99


Cecil Taylor: Air Above Mountains (CD: Enja) Price: £13.99


	Cecil Taylor: Olu Iwa (CD: Soul Note) Price: £12.99


Cecil Taylor: Live In Vienna (CD: Leo) Price: £13.99


	Cecil Taylor Unit: Live In Bologna (CD: Leo) Price: £13.99


Cecil Taylor: Tzotzil, Mummers, Tzotzil (CD: Leo) Price: £13.99


	Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: Being Astral And All Registers - Power Of Two (CD: Discus Music) A live meeting between pioneering US free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and English drummer and percussionist Tony Oxley. With first class quality audio, this 2002 recording of the duo is from the personal archives of Tony Oxley. The musical synergy between Taylor and Oxley is one of the most natural and artistically fulfilling manifestations of the "Art of the Duo" idiom. After all these two musicians share many common qualities: they are revolutionaries, pioneers, visionaries and free spirits, who expanded the realms of music perhaps more significantly than is commonly acknowledged. It is not only what they managed to create over the years but also how they did it: boldly, uncompromisingly, and above all consistently. (Proper Music) Price: £13.99

The Bebop Shop : New York Is Now: Ornette and Free Jazz : Cecil Taylor

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