Cecil Taylor Unit – ‘Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts’ (1969, 2026 release)
‘Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts’ an historically important document of four giants pushing jazz out to its very limits.
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Cecil Taylor New Unit – ‘Words and Music – the last bandstand’ (2016, 2026 release)
We long knew that Cecil Taylor was an intensely creative artist, and it’s remarkable to behold this intensity that never waned even at the end of a sixty-plus year career.
Cecil Taylor + Tony Oxley – ‘Flashing Spirits’ (1988, 2025 release)
‘Flashing Spirits’ by Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley gives us another glimpse into this special musical alliance between two masters of improvised music during a time when the two were just getting to know each other.
On Second Thought: Matthew Shipp Trio – Root Of Things (2014)
As I listen to pianist Matthew Shipp’s latest release, there’s a part of me that finds it difficult to not be unduly influenced by the knowledge that Shipp thinks that Stanley Crouch is a horse’s ass. That influence is hard to ignore, since one of the qualities of Shipp’s pronouncementsRead More
WTF?! Wednesdays: Bill Orcutt, “The Visible Bosom” (2011)
It starts off with some relatively straightforward arpeggios, tensely shifting back and forth between two chords. And then…a kind of beautiful mayhem. You May Also Like: Bill Frisell – Music IS (2018) Bill Evans – Time Remembered, The Life & Music of Bill Evans (2016, DVD)
