The Cecil Taylor Unit
The Cecil Taylor Unit was the name pianist Cecil Taylor (1929-2018) used for his working groups in concert and on record from the early 1960s, with a changing line-up around a few long-serving players. Taylor, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray formed its early core, Andrew Cyrille later took the drum chair, and Lyons remained Taylor's main partner in the group until his death in 1986. The 1966 Blue Note album Unit Structures had Lyons, Cyrille, Eddie Gale, Ken McIntyre and bassists Henry Grimes and Alan Silva.
Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts
On Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts, The Cecil Taylor Unit detonates across two uncut Paris sets: a newly unearthed, vividly mastered document of Taylor, Sam Rivers, Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille stretching free jazz into an overwh…
Cecil Taylor Unit, Live At Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit
"This, the third release from the sequence of remarkable performances by Cecil Taylor’s Unit recorded at Fat. Tuesday’s in New York from 8-10 February 1980 (the previous two are It Is In the Brewing Luminous [Hat Hut], and Live At Fat Tuesday’s, Febr…
Dark To Themselves
*2024 stock* Dark to Themselves is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Yugoslavia, on June 18, 1976, and released on the Enja label. The album features Taylor on piano with alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, tenor saxopho…
Live At Fat Tuesday's, February 9, 1980 First Visit
First visit archive offers previously unreleased recordings of historic and musical importance. "When, in this music, he succeeds in fusing the emotional (translated into its lyrical and dramatic qualities) pas- sage of ritual with the complex archit…
