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Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley: Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley

Read "Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 1, 2002

I have a confession to make. One night at the Hotel Colibri in Victoriaville, Quebec, after a resoundingly disdained set by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley, I rode up in the elevator with Oxley and Victo festival promoter Michel Levasseur. My room was on the first floor, but I wanted to hear what they ...

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Cecil Taylor: The Willisau Concert

Read "The Willisau Concert" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 4, 2002

It’s been quite a few years since I’ve listened to pianist Cecil Taylor’s classic solo performance Silent Tongues. However, with his latest solo endeavor, recorded live on September 3, 2000 at the Jazzfestival Willisau in Switzerland, the pianist has added yet another astounding entry into his already rich recorded legacy. The thrust of this ...

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It Is In The Brewing Luminous

By Cecil Taylor

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: It Is In The Brewing Luminous Part 1 & 2

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Momentum Space

By Cecil Taylor

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2001

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Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman, Elvin Jones: Momentum Space

by Craig Jolley
September 1, 2001

Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane emerged as the leading voices of the new music forty years ago. Each created from a separate vision that went beyond their predecessors. Coltrane and Taylor made a record together ( Coltrane Time, United Artists). Coleman ( New York Is Now, Blue Note), and Coltrane ( The Avante Garde, ...

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Cecil Taylor Unit: It Is In The Brewing Luminous

by Glenn Astarita
June 1, 2001

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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Dave Holland: A Weekend of Bass

by Dave Roberts
May 1, 2001

There may be no instrument that is more vital yet less heralded in a jazz group than the bass. The bass provides much of the rhythmic and harmonic foundation as well as outlining the form. If the bassist is solid, locking in with the drums and piano, everyone else in the group can relax. And often, ...

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Mixed

By Cecil Taylor

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Bulbs; Pots; Mixed; Everywhere; Yankee No-How; Respects; Satan

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Momentum Space

By Dewey Redman

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Nine; Bakei; Spoonin'; Life As; It; Is; Dew.

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Cecil Taylor Unit & Roswell Rudd Sextet: Mixed

by Jim Santella
February 1, 1999

“Everywhere," “Yankee No-How," “Respects," and “Satan’s Dance" constitute a reissue of Impulse! [AS-9126], Everywhere, originally recorded July 8, 1966 in New York by the Roswell Rudd Sextet. “Bulbs," “Pots," and “Mixed" were originally recorded October 10, 1961 in New York by the Cecil Taylor Unit, and those tracks appeared alongside several unrelated tracks by members of ...