Cecil Taylor / discography
This discography provides an overview of the published records of the pianist Cecil Taylor . It includes his albums under his own name ( section 1 ), and his contributions to the sound carriers of others ( section 2 ). Compilations can be found in section 3 .
Discography
Under his own name
This section lists the LPs and CDs published by Cecil Taylor in chronological order according to the date they were recorded (other sorting, e.g. by year of release or label, can be created by clicking on the respective "tab").
| album | Label | Release | admission | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz Advance | Transition ; Blue Note Records | 1956 | September 14, 1956 | with Steve Lacy , Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles (various line-ups) |
| At Newport | verve | 1958 | July 6, 1957 | in a quartet with Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles and Steve Lacy at the Newport Jazz Festival , second record side with the Gigi Gryce - Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory , also under the titles Modern Jazz and Masters of the Modern Piano |
| Looking Ahead! | Contemporary | 1959 | June 9, 1958 | with Earl Griffith , Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles |
| Hard driving jazz | United Artists / Blue Note | 1959 | October 13, 1958 | with John Coltrane , Kenny Dorham , Chuck Israels , Louis Hayes (and other editions also with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles), later also under the title Coltrane Time and Stereo Drive |
| Love for sale | United Artists | 1959 | April 15, 1959 | with Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles as well as Ted Curson and Bill Barron |
| The World of Cecil Taylor | Candid | 1960 | October 12 & 13, 1960 | with Archie Shepp , Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles |
| Air | Candid | 1988 | October 12 & 13, 1960 | with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Sunny Murray or Denis Charles |
| Cell Walk for Celeste | Candid | 1961 | January 9 & 10, 1961 | with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles as well as Clark Terry , Roswell Rudd , Steve Lacy, Charles Davis , Billy Higgins |
| Jumpin 'punkins | Victor / Candid | 1977 | January 9 & 10, 1961 | with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles as well as Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Charles Davis, Billy Higgins |
| New York City R&B | Candid or Columbia | 1961 | January 9 & 10, 1961 | with Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Archie Shepp, Charles Davis, Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles and Billy Higgins |
| What's new | Debut / Fontana / Freedom / Intercord | 1965 | November 23, 1962 | Live with Jimmy Lyons , Sunny Murray at Jazzhus Montmartre . Also under the title Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come |
| Innovations | Debut / Freedom / Polydor | 1972 | November 23, 1962 | Live with Jimmy Lyons , Sunny Murray at Jazzhus Montmartre . With What's New also as Complete Live at the Cafe Montmartre |
| Unit structures | Blue note | 1966 | May 19, 1966 | with Eddie Gale , Jimmy Lyons, Ken McIntyre , Henry Grimes , Alan Silva , Andrew Cyrille |
| Conquistador! | Blue note | 1967 | October 6, 1966 | with Bill Dixon , Henry Grimes, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille |
| Student Studies | BYG / Black Lion Records | 1973 | November 30, 1966 | with Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille, also under the title The Great Paris Concert |
| practice | practice | 1982 | July 1968 | Live concert, solo |
| Nuits de la Fondation Maeght | Shandar / Prestige | 1977 | July 29, 1969 | with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers , Andrew Cyrille, also under the title The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor |
| In Europe | Jazz connoisseur | ? | November 9, 1969 | with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Andrew Cyrille |
| Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 | FreeFactory | 2009 | 1971 | solo |
| Indent | Arista Freedom | 1973 | March 11, 1973 | solo |
| Akisakila | trio | 1973 | May 22, 1973 | with Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille |
| Solo , 1973 | trio | 1973 | May 19, 1973 | Live recording of a solo concert from Iino Hall, Tokyo |
| Spring of Two Blue J's | Unit Core / Historical Masters | 1974 | 4th November 1973 | One side solo, the other side in a quartet with Jimmy Lyons, Sirone , Andrew Cyrille |
| Silent tongues | Freedom | 1974 | 2nd July 1974 | solo, live at the Montreux Jazz Festival |
| Dark to Themselves | Enja | 1976 | June 18, 1976 | Live recording from the Ljubljana Jazz Festival with Raphe Malik , Jimmy Lyons, David S. Ware and Marc Edwards |
| Air Above Mountains | Enja / Inner City | 1976 | 20th August 1976 | Live recording of a solo concert from Moosham Castle |
| Cecil Taylor Unit | New World | 1978 | April 3-6, 1978 | with Raphe Malik , Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen , Sirone, Ronald Shannon Jackson |
| 3 phasis | New World | 1978 | April 3-6, 1978 | with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Sirone, Ronald Shannon Jackson |
| Live in the Black Forest | MPS , pause | 1978 | June 3, 1978 | with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Sirone, Ronald Shannon Jackson (live recording by SWR) |
| One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye | Has hat | 1980 | June 14, 1978 | with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Sirone, Ronald Shannon Jackson (live recording by SWF) |
| Historic Concerts | Soul note | 1984 | 15th December 1979 | with Max Roach |
| It is in the Brewing Luminous | Has hat | 1981 | February 8 and 9, 1980 | with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Alan Silva, Jerome Cooper, Sunny Murray |
| Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! | MPS | 1980 | September 14, 1980 | solo |
| Calling It the Eighth | Has hat | 1986 | November 8, 1981 | with Jimmy Lyons, William Parker and Rashid Bakr . Live recording from the 2nd Freiburg Jazz Festival, later editions under the simplified title The Eighth |
| Garden | Has hat | 1982 | November 16, 1981 | Live recording of a solo concert in Basel |
| Nicaragua: No Pasaran - Willisau 83 Live | Nica (bootleg) | 1983? | August 27, 1983 | Concert with Jimmy Lyons, William Parker, André Martinez , Rashid Bakr, Brenda Bakr |
| Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) | Soul note | 1985 | October 22-24, 1984 | with Jimmy Lyons, Enrico Rava , Tomasz Stanko , Frank Wright , John Tchicai , Gunter Hampel , Karen Borca , André Martinez, William Parker and Rashid Bakr (as The Orchestra of Two Continents ) |
| Iwontunwons | Sound Hills | 1995 | February 8, 1986 | Live recording of a solo concert from the Sweet Basil |
| Amewa | Sound Hills | 1995 | February 8, 1986 | Live recording of a solo concert from the Sweet Basil |
| For Olim | Soul note | 1987 | April 9, 1986 | Live recording of a solo concert in West Berlin |
| Olu Iwa | Soul note | 1987 | April 12, 1986 | Live recording of a concert with Thurman Barker , William Parker and Steve McCall as well as Earl McIntyre, Peter Brötzmann and Frank Wright from West Berlin |
| Live in Bologna | Leo Records | 1987 | 3rd November 1987 | with Thurman Barker, William Parker, Carlos Ward and Leroy Jenkins |
| Live in Vienna | Leo | 1988 | November 7, 1987 | with Thurman Barker, William Parker, Carlos Ward and Leroy Jenkins |
| Tzotzil / Mummers / Tzotzil | Leo | 1988 | November 7, 1987 (poems recorded later) | with Thurman Barker, William Parker, Carlos Ward and Leroy Jenkins |
| Chinampas | Leo | 1988 | November 17-18, 1987 | solo |
| Riobec | FMP | 1988 | 17th June 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Günter Baby Sommer |
| In East Berlin | FMP | 1988 | June 20 and 21, 1988 | Live recording in East Berlin, Günter Baby Sommer is on the second CD |
| Regalia | FMP | 1988 | June 26, 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Paul Lovens |
| The Hearth , 1988 | FMP | 1988 | June 30, 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Evan Parker and Tristan Honsinger |
| Alms / Tiergarten (Spree) , 1988 | FMP | 1989 | July 2nd, 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra (Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko, Martin Mayes , Hannes Bauer , Christian Radovan , Wolter Wierbos , Hans Koch , Peter van Bergen , Peter Brötzmann, Gunter Hampel, Peter Kowald , William Parker, Han Bennink ) |
| Remembrance | FMP | 1989 | 3rd July 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Louis Moholo |
| Pleistocene with water | FMP | 1989 | July 9, 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Derek Bailey |
| Spots, Circles, and Fantasy | FMP | 1989 | July 10, 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Han Bennink |
| Legba Crossing | FMP | 1989 | July 15, 1988 | Live recording of a concert in West Berlin with the Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble ( Sabine Kopf , Daniel Werts , Brigitte Vinkeloe , Joachim Gies , Ove Volquartz , Heinz-Erich Gödecke , Harald Kimmig , Alexander Frangenheim , Uwe Martin , George Wolf , Paul Plimley , Lukas Lindenmaier , Peeter Uuskyla , Trudy Morse ) |
| Erzulie Maketh Scent | FMP | 1989 | July 16, 1988 | Live recording of a solo concert in West Berlin |
| Leaf palm hand | FMP | 1989 | 17th July 1988 | Live recording in West Berlin with Tony Oxley |
| In Florescence | AT THE | 1990 | June 8, 1989 | with William Parker and Gregg Bendian |
| Looking (Berlin Version) Solo | FMP | 1989 | November 1, 1989 | Live recording of a solo concert in West Berlin |
| Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio | FMP | 1989 | November 2nd 1989 | Live recording of a trio concert with William Parker and Tony Oxley in West Berlin |
| Looking (Berlin Version) Corona | FMP | 1989 | November 3rd and 4th, 1989 | Live recording with excerpts from two concerts at the Total Music Meeting with Harald Kimmig, Muneer Abdul Fataah , William Parker and Tony Oxley in West Berlin |
| Celebrated blazons | FMP | 1993 | June 21, 1990 | Live recording of a trio concert with William Parker and Tony Oxley in Berlin |
| 2Ts for a Lovely T | Codanza Records | 2002 | August 27 to September 1, 1990 | 10-CD box of a series of concerts with William Parker and Tony Oxley at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club |
| Double Holy House | FMP | 1993 | September 23, 1990 | Live recording of a solo concert in Berlin |
| Nailed , 1990 | FMP | 1993 | September 26, 1990 | Live recording of a concert with Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley in Berlin |
| Melancholy , 1990 | FMP | 1999 | September 30, 1990 | Live recording of a concert in Berlin with the Cecil Taylor Workshop Ensemble (with Tobias Netta , Jörg Huke , Thomas Wiedermann , Wolfgang Fuchs , Volker Schlott , Harri Sjöström , Evan Parker, Thomas Klemm , Barry Guy, Tony Oxley) |
| The Dance Project | FMP | 2008 | July 8, 1990 | with William Parker and Masashi Harada |
| The Tree of Life | FMP | 1998 | March 19, 1991 | Live recording of a solo concert at the Deutsche Oper |
| Always a pleasure | FMP | 1996 | April 8, 1993 | Live recording of a concert with Longineu Parsons , Harri Sjöström, Charles Gayle , Tristan Honsinger, Sirone and Rashid Bakr |
| corona | FMP | 2018 | November 1, 1996 | Live recording of a concert from the Total Music Meeting with Sunny Murray (and the voices of Dominic Duval, Tristan Honsinger, Jeff Hoyer, Chris Jonas, Jackson Krall, Elliott Levin, Chris Matthay, Harri Sjöström) |
| Almeda | FMP | 2004 | November 2, 1996 | Live recording of a concert with Chris Matthay , Chris Jonas , Harri Sjöström, Elliott Levin , Jeff Hoyer , Tristan Honsinger, Dominic Duval , Jackson Krall (Taylor only in the second piece on piano) |
| The Light of Corona | FMP | 2003 | November 3, 1996 | Live recording of a concert with Chris Matthay, Chris Jonas, Harri Sjöström, Elliott Levin, Jeff Hoyer, Tristan Honsinger, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
| Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, vol. 1 & 2 , 1998 | Cadence Jazz | 1998 | March 29, 1998 | Live recording of a concert with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
| Momentum space | verve | 1999 | 4th and 5th August 1998 | with Dewey Redman and Elvin Jones ; Taylor only plays on 4 out of 7 titles |
| Algonquin | bridge | 2004 | February 12, 1999 | Live performance with Mat Maneri at the Library of Congress |
| Poschiavo , 1999 | Black Sun | 2018 | May 14, 1999 | Live recording of a solo concert at the Uncool Festival in Poschiavo |
| Incarnation | FMP | 2004 | November 4, 1999 | with Franky Douglas , Tristan Honsinger and Andrew Cyrille |
| Complicité | Les Disques Victo | 2001 | May 22, 2000 | Solo concert at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville , the other two CDs contain concerts by Marilyn Crispell and Paul Plimley / John Oswald |
| The Willisau Concert | Intact | 2002 | September 3, 2000 | Solo concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival |
| The Owner of the River Bank | Enja | 2003 | September 10, 2000 | with the Italian Unabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia |
| Taylor / Dixon / Oxley | Les Disques Victo | 2002 | May 19, 2002 | Performances live with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville |
| The Last Dance | Cadence Jazz | 2009 | October 30, 2003 | Live performance at the San Francisco Jazz Fest with Dominic Duval |
| Ailanthus / Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs | Triple Point Records | 2009 | November 6th and 9th 1008 | Performed live at Village Vanguard with Tony Oxley, with a book of poems and works of art |
| Conversations with Tony Oxley | Jazz workshop Berlin | 2018 | February 20, 2008 | Live recording of a concert with Tony Oxley in the Philharmonie Berlin |
| Birdland, Neuburg 2011 | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2020 | November 18, 2011 | Live recording of a concert with Tony Oxley in Birdland Neuburg |
Collaborative recordings and recordings under a different name
- Gil Evans Orchestra: Into the Hot (1961; on one side of the record three tracks with Taylor's quintet and septet with Jimmy Lyons, Archie Shepp, Henry Grimes, Sunny Murray as well as Roswell Rudd and Ted Curson)
- Jazz Composer's Orchestra : The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA 1968; Taylor interpreted two tracks)
- Friedrich Gulda : Nachrichten vom Lande (1976; Taylor participated in three (of six) titles with Gulda and Albert Mangelsdorff , John Surman , Barre Phillips , Stu Martin , Ursula Anders )
- Cecil Taylor / Mary Lou Williams Embraced (Pablo 1977, with Bob Cranshaw , Mickey Roker )
- Tony Williams : The Joy of Flying (1978; Taylor contributed to a title)
- Krystall Klear and the Buells Ready for the 90’s (K2B2 Records 1980, Taylor is only involved in one track with Buell Neidlinger and Dennis Charles from 1961)
- Buell Neidlinger, Marty Krystall , Archie Shepp, Glenn Ferris , Billy Elgart , Don Preston , Deborah Fuss , Dennis Charles, Cecil Taylor: Marty's Garage (K2B2 Records 1983, Taylor is only involved in one track from 1961)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor: Thelonious Sphere Monk (1990; Taylor participated in three titles)
- Cecil Taylor + Pauline Oliveros : Solo - Duo - Poetry (EMPAC CD 2012; rec. 2008)
Compilations
- VA One Night with Blue Note Volume 2 (Blue Note 1985; live recordings from February 22, 1985; only one track with Taylor solo; one track each with the Bennie Wallace Trio and the quintet by Jackie McLean )
- Crossing (Jazz Hour 1989, contains recordings from the albums The Great Paris Concert , Indent and Silent Tongues )
- In Berlin 88 (FMP 1989, contains all 13 CDs from Taylor's stay in Berlin in the late summer of 1988)
- The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor and Buell Neidlinger ( Mosaic 1989; 6 LPs or 4 CDs with recordings from 1960/61 with Archie Shepp , Dennis Charles , Steve Lacy , Charles Davis , Clark Terry , Roswell Rudd , Billy Higgins )
- VA Mixed (Impulse! 1998)
- The Complete Collection 1956-1962 Nine Original Albums (Enlightenment 2014, contains the albums Jazz Advance , At Newport , Looking Ahead ! , Stereo Drive , Love For Sale , New York City R&B , The World Of Cecil Taylor , Into The Hot and Live at The Cafe Montmartre )
- The Glorious Step (Musica 2018)
Web links
- Sessionography
- Discography (Columbia University)
- Discography (complete until 1987)
- Cecil Taylor / Discography at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry (Discogs) . 32 minutes solo Taylor, 16 minutes solo Oliveros, 22 minutes in a duo; additional floating gardens: The Poetry of Cecil Taylor (75 minutes)
- ↑ Entry (Discogs)
- ^ Box Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 (reviews). fmp-label.de, accessed on July 14, 2020 .