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New Music from Joe Fiedler, Billy Childs, Maria Grand, And More
by Bob Osborne
The present and the past collide in this twelve release set of new albums. The first five featured tracks are from recently recorded material demonstrating the best modern jazz can offer. The remaining seven tracks are historical recordings, never before released, from the Elemental and Resonance labels for Record Store Day 2026. All of these capture ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
by Dan McClenaghan
Cecil Taylor, a pioneer of free jazz, pared down his Cecil Taylor Unit ensemble for a trip through Europe to partake in a 15-date tour in late 1969, in support of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Miles Davis Quintet. This foray was billed as the Newport Jazz Festival In Europe. Taylor's Unit of the day--Taylor ...
Anthony Braxton: Solo Bern 1984 First Visit
by John Eyles
Following hot on the heels of Cecil Taylor Unit's Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980, First Visit (ezz-thetics, 2024)--the inaugural release of ezz-thetics' First Visit series--comes another never-before-released live album. This one dates from July 7th, 1984, and was recorded live at Altes Schlachthaus, Bern, Switzerland. It features a thirty-nine-year-old Anthony Braxton alone, playing alto ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: Live At Fat Tuesday's February 9,1980 First Visit
by Chris May
More faux-intellectual codswallop has been written about Cecil Taylor than about any other jazz musician, dead or alive. He has been, and continues to be, misrepresented as an arcane Einsteinian theorist by a cult whose members are afraid of visceral reactions to his art (or to anyone else's). But Taylor's work demands a visceral response. It ...
Chris Pitsiokos, Susana Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg: Child Of Illusion
by Don Phipps
Selecting a cover illustration of a dark and menacing four-armed lemur, the trio of musicians on the album Child Of Illusion, Chris Pitsiokos (alto sax), Susana Santos Silva (trumpet), and Torbjörn Zetterberg (double bass), signal that this album will pack an unusual musical wallop. And indeed it does, with top level improvisations that explore dynamics and ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth
by Chris May
Half man and half force of nature, pianist Cecil Taylor has made his music a mass of opposites and contradictions. Simultaneously exhausting and liberating, primeval and space age, visceral and intellectually rigorous, it's like nothing that went before it and precious little that came afterward. As revolutionary a stylist as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane combined, ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
by Rex Butters
Hat Hut has done the world a favor and restored Cecil Taylor's epic 1978 Stuttgart concert recording, One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye, to the active list. Originally released in the unwieldy three-record set format on vinyl, now spread over a less disjointed two-CD collection, this leonine work anticipates the increasingly popular juxtaposition of ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye
by Jerry D'Souza
Cecil Taylor Unit One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye Hatology 2004 (1978) It seems to me that what music is, is everything that you do. Those words from pianist Cecil Taylor, in the documentary Imagine The Sound , are a pointer to his craft. A little ...
Cecil Taylor Unit: It Is In The Brewing Luminous
by Glenn Astarita
This newly released live set of the “Cecil Taylor Unit's" performance at New York City's “Fat Tuesday" venue, presents the listener with a stunning glimpse of the pianist's interaction with his then musical soulmate, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons. And while Lyons passed away in 1986, the twosome had been performing together since the 1960's throughout various ...
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