Cecil Taylor - The Historic All-Star Reunion Concert 1985

[charliellorente]

It´s incomplete...

[stochasticactus]

Where is part 2? It used to be up. Love this, thanks for posting.

[AdamKromelow]

and the laaaaaaaaaamb....



[FMSV1P3R]

Great Cecil Piece!  I love him solo!

[ishta]

This is actually an "accessible" Cecil piece

[jazzman1945]

If someone suspects that this is not music but noise - are invited to make a record on piano 8.5 minutes similar (in his opinion) noise and then compare their results with this video. It will have all the rest of their lives to try to understand - why the results are not similar ...

[ppjjazz]

It seams that he is playing a storm in the ocean

[Manzeron]

GENIUS !!! GENIUS !!! GENIUS !!! GENIUS !!! GENIUS !!! GENIUS !!! this is what understand listening this pure brillance !!!

[1foradime]

Regrettably, this makes so much pianomusic ... no longer necessary.

[pooperscoopr69]

Regrettably, most people wish to subjugate music to their uneducated prejudices. It affords them the solace and consolation of remaining in a perpetual state of atrophy, while they wait with breathless anticipation for the next installment of American Idol.

[OnBeingAndNothingnes]

What! this is my favorite piano piece/performance ever, but this clip cuts the last few moments off! A little respect, please, for the performer and his art. Take my word for it, this has a wonderful ending.....

[PaulMurphyJazzDrum]

beautiful C.T. ! Thanks for posting !

[anth1957]

This guy ever just play a nice quiet F***ing Ballad???!!!! Just once would be nice.

[DarkeningSkies1]

What is the "point" of any music? It is an art form that many people enjoy.

And if this is as offensive to some as the paint by numbers "Hey the King liked it so let's write more of the same" style of many of the classical composers is to me, don't waste your oh so precious time listening/watching posting on it.

[jlevinson6]

I feel like screaming: doesn't anyone notice he plays the exact same thing at every fucking solo so called improvised concert!!!!!! What a scam artist.

[nukepcr]

What's the point of all this?

[britekite]

wow!!!!!

[kingaspking]

I'm so glad i found that live recording!

[martinezsuastegui]

does anyone has the "historic concerts" video (Max Roach and Cecil Taylor) duo?

[DarkeningSkies1]

I have the CD, but not the video.

[fekete2008]

éljen soká, éljen soká.

a világmindenségből, és benne.

halgassd meg a mcribbentropp-ot a youtube-on.

ettől sokkal gyengébb mégis imádni való mindkettő.

köszönet

[17205513]

thank you so much mr.taylor i really don't know what i'd be doing if it were not for you. i see your dedication for the music and it makes me try to do my absolute best and then some. your music to me has always been a complete synthesis of what a true artist can bring to the fore.

[andrecornal]

Pontos is in reality PUNTOS; there is a typo here.... also; have you noticed the same patterns like in UNIT STRUCTURES.. his BLUE NOTE period... harmonies that are part of composers and keep coming back.... also his duet work wit DEREK BAILEY.. they are the same chorus' lines... GOOD AS ALWAYS!

[ThePilsnerX]

There is only one Cecil, and I've been privileged to see him perform many times, solo and with the late, great Jimmy Lyons. Their concerts were something I'll remember for the rest of my life... Why? Because they were two halves of a single mind. Don't ask me to explain it, just listen to their recordings!

[flutetime]

WOW. words dont describe this guys greatness everytime I hear him play...just ...I hope new sounds new noise new people new ideas come by often,, the world needs more greats like him..

MAESTRO its great to have you with us

[karenwade2121]

How wonderful it is to hear Maestro. He is truely a giant musical genius. The moment he sits down to play, you feel he is unlimited, and you only feel love for him and oneness with the music, recognizing your self. Cecil was to perform in Vermont tomorrow,and looking forward to being with him again, his concert was postponed. He is in the hospital. We shall miss the mad serenity of his music on this new full moon, starry Spring night in Vermont. We love him unconditionally. Naima~ Sam

[bobaiyun]

If you think he's banging, notice how on all those runs he's playing a repeated pattern, or he's repeating the same melodic line (if you want to call it melody). I'm a pianist myself; do you have ANY idea how hard that is to do?

[sunmosphere]

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and he was the first one to do it. props for posting this!

[GumboVariations]

nice vid.

the only inconvenient about cecil music is that he repeated himself after the 80'

[kaschte]

Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!

[uburei]

wo how hooow

do your homework cowboy!!!

[mklambatsea]

How beautifull is this music and the free spirit of this pianist musician Composer

Is so sad you cant apreciate

[bobohidalgo]

he can play your mom

[u89worlds]

...he takes off his glasses to see the sound......

sometimes the con man is really a shaman.

human ferocity is something music often needs and lacks.

bring back the howling wind and your wounded heart needs to holler too.

[meisdupid]

Its almost sad how some ppl cannot see the true meaning behind music; past all the stuff we see in popular music. true music is created by the soul and only the best musicians are able to fully elaborate on how they feel through their music. anyway, cecil taylor is a musical genius.

[1986era]

Hell ya! I'm going to go beat the shit out of my keyboard! Maybe people will call me a musical genius!

[nakim55]

You wish!

[nakim55]

Makes me laugh, for 50 years people are still debating Cecil. God he has got to be doing something right.

[jameztashnick]

does this guy know a single real fucking scale or chord?!?

[iujhu]

i'ts called free jazz... they're avoiding those things as much as they can.

[IceM0nkey]

What is a "real" scale? You mean the one developed by a white man in Europe? Or one developed by a man in Indonesia? Or India? Or how about a scale developed by an African American man?

[bodyofmystery]

yes, and you would know that if you had done any research. he played the shit out of monk for instance. steve lacy named a fucking scale after him.

[SteelAsylum]

that does not take away from the fact that this is just some guy pounding on random keys for eight minutes.

[meisdupid]

he actually went to the new england conservatory of music. he knows more about the piano than most ppl know about their own freakin penis. besides, every note he plays is already goin through his head and he wants to play every that he is playing, chord or not.

[jameztashnick]

ya, and I'm sure that he was conscious of every note that he was playing as he banged his elbows against the piano keys along side the italian instabile orchestra.

[meisdupid]

yes, he was. musical complexity and genius is only understood by a few i guess, or at least is easily misunderstood.

[spongekill]

The ignorance of referring to "real" scales and chords aside, such things are primarily notation devices, and when you reach this level of performance they become irrelevant. I was at a jazz workshop- after an improvised piece a student joked to the sax player, "You must really know all your scales, huh", and he said "Well, I used to."

This is to piano what Picasso is to paint. If you get it, wonderful. If not, the Top 40 is full of music with nice little major scales and triads for you.

[flutetime]

Great comment, like the way you put it very much

MUCH MUCH respect

to Cecil Taylor

great stuff love it

[bobaiyun]

Lol

"Nice little major scales and triads for you"

[modem09]

"...This is to piano what Picasso is to paint" yeah sure, you made my day sir!

[onepresence]

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

[onepresence]

Mastery, Power and Authority! Amen.

[ADURG1]

so beautiful...love the extreme dynamics and the vibrant tone colorings...great to hear virtuosity used as a portal instead of a vehicle for exercises. yee haw! thanks for posting!

[brokenlampshade]

the greatest pianist of all time

[zosantube]

as always flowing, pulsating, dynamic, somehow tender in this one....

[athruzathruz]

it sounds like a nightmare!

[ZamzarBob]

SOu nds like theories.

[heb09]

Great recording!

[niaplaysviola]

that's hot.

[dauniklazro]

genialissimo

[cjmarsicano]

You've gotta have mad skills to play like that.

[rockamadur]

es musica para musicos no se parece a nada que se comercialice o que tenga un compromiso con algo o alguien . si el senor esta loco es cosa de el tal vez en nuestro beneficio

[Vinthoveen]

I disagree.

[laxsmi99]

the emperor has no clothes

[kaitianchen10]

my little cousin plays like that

[Sweatybus]

I strongly doubt it.

[postmeback]

"I've had great arguments lately with cats who wish to make all kinds of separation between form, content, and technique, but I tell them that technique isn't anything divorced from the end product. It doesn't matter where your technique comes from or whether it's 'correct' or not. It will be correct if your music is strong." (Cecil Taylor)

[lexo30]

Cool. Can I have a recording of your little cousin? Sounds good to me.

[SensoryOssuary]

Congratulations!

[jackdelawack]

as always, brilliant.

[1h7e9r5m]

It IS a sound of it's own!

[scox1000]

dancing protoplasm absorbs

[billypistol]

Very strange indeed!