Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (1966)

Artist: Cecil Taylor
Title Of Album: Unit Structures
Year Of Release: 1987
Label(Catalog#): Blue Note[CDP 7 84237 2]
Country:USA
Genre: Jazz, Free Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Bitrate:Lossless
Time: 46:27
Full Size: 312 MB(+3%)

Tracklist

1. Steps 10:20
2. Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure) 11:06
3. Enter, Evening (Alternate Take) 10:11
4. Unit Structure/As Of A Now/Section 17:47
5. Tales (8 Whisps)

personnel :

Eddie Gale – trumpet
Jimmy Lyons – alto saxophone
Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone, oboe, bass clarinet
Cecil Taylor – piano, bells
Henry Grimes – double bass
Alan Silva – double bass
Andrew Cyrille – drums

After several years off records, pianist Cecil Taylor finally had an opportunity to document his music of the mid-'60s on two Blue Note albums (the other one was Conquistador). Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement. In fact, this septet outing with trumpeter Eddie Gale, altoist Jimmy Lyons, Ken McIntyre (alternating between alto, oboe and bass clarinet), both Henry Grimes and Alan Silva on basses, and drummer Andrew Cyrille is quite stunning and very intense. In fact, it could be safely argued that no jazz music of the era approached the ferocity and intensity of Cecil Taylor's.~Scott Yanow

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