Cecil Taylor Unit + ballet 1983 Germany Part 1 of 2

[pooperscoopr69]

If you're unable to detect Ellington's influence in Taylor's artistic pedigree...well, you may wish to consider a career in the fast food industry.

[jstndav]

I see the art in what he is doing, and I really appreciate, respect and enjoy his idea of music and art, but I cannot yet enjoy it very much. but to me that is very exciting because It is a great experience to have to spend years digesting an art before you are able to truly enjoy it.

[riffraff6259]

I UNDERSTAND ELECTRICITY

[arobsec]

Cecil is incredible, his music is like electricity... let it wash over you and don't try to understand it.

[colincbass414]

space is the place...

[theroyalpriest]

Ok i have listen to a lot of Cecil Taylor and I have yet to hear him play any real piano - this aint music

[megadisco]

an example of narrow-minded thinking. since when does art need an approval from everybody to be valid? some people -like me- really enjoy ct unit and wouldnt want it to be anything other than what it is. dont like it? listen to sth else...

[theroyalpriest]

well to each his own, I guess. I must say though, he does have a pretty large following so he must be doing something right...

[pooperscoopr69]

@theroyalpriest

And you know nothing about art music.

[Qkcofse]

The sound pulses in a wonderfully noisy way around 5:11 and a few seconds thereafter. It's a kind of mini-crescendo within the piece that seems to be formed from the piano 'notes.' I love those basslines! We can always use more bass and piano in free jazz to balance out the horn mayhem.

[qwerty9034]

Cecil Taylor made his career on the backs of white intellectuals. Here's what he's doing. He's randomly banging on the keys like an ape. If he happens to bang out a repetitive rhythm for a few moments, everyone else in the band bangs out the same rhythm so it sounds like they're "hooking up" and playing together. He plays some pretty chords or runs every once in a while to glue the junk together and give people a respite from the random banging, and to give the illusion of coherence.

Garbage.

[musicman12]

This sounds like raw emotion to me. I love it. Listen to the ones labeled Cecil Taylor, those are beautiful and much more organized in the sense you're looking for.

You're right that that when he holds out something it becomes a climax or a focal point because that's what we relate too. But I just sense raw emotion, spastic movements, something that might be a lot more human than we give credit to.

And if it's primal, that's fine too. But can hold his own playing more proper music.

[CatchyChords]

You are an ignorant piece of garbage qwerty9034, obviously not remotely intelligent enough to grasp the profound depth of music being explored here. So...STFU and go watch your Kenny G videos, you disrespectful twat.

[lkman4]

your opinion is garbage

[fatherfocus]

jajjajaj de lujo esta filete

great concert

[PSIchiater]

Cecil bei der Arbeit,große Kunst

[PatrickBickel]

Years ago when i was studying jazz my teacher lent me a video with Cecil and Max Roach as a duo and it blew me away. It's one thing to listen to this stuff but actually being able to see what you are hearing....."music" has never been the same for me. This is a great clip.

[Zeugitai]

Does anyone know if/where the Cecil Taylor Unit of the late seventies can be seen? I would like to see the band that did the 1978 Cecil Taylor Unit recording available on New World Records. Thanks!

[alform]

Greate!

It would have been interesting to know more details about the concert. Could it be the one from Der Philharmonie, Berlin, on October 30, 1983? Maybe not, because there were 4 dancers?

[PaulMurphyJazzDrum]

i love to listen as much as i love to play.

[alduffy2009]

Or he imitates the sound frequencies that our planet makes at intervals of conjunctions.

All wrapped around his fingers in Middle C

[1peoplesun]

8.81 amazing !!!!!

nice !

[choo2oo8]

GOLDENRAY

[japanesesweet]

i like what`s going on in the piano (even though CT is just going through the motions of what he`s done for decades)-incredible physicality to what he does...

as ever,the problem is the percussion and bass which just clutter the whole thing up!

[babalu17]

Are we to be impressed with this mediocre analysis of Cecil

and this great rhythm section. Perhaps the problem is your ears seeking sweetness rather than the adventure of spontaneous creativity in the highest order. Listen to the applause of the audience to perhaps to cue you as to what you been missing out on all those years.

[japanesesweet]

`analsis`- - -that's a rather inflated description of what i wrote!-a mere observation/reaction...

are my ears seeking sweetness?? not really-as i said,i like CT`s piano playing and perfromance manner neither of which are exactly sweet.

[pawdaw]

This is freaking AMAZING

[einekleinenachtmusic]

In addition to piano, Taylor has always been interested in ballet and dance. His mother, who died while he was still young, was a dancer and also played the piano and violin. Taylor once said: "I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes".

[54spiritedwill54]

great music !

[krystinastimakovits]

cecil plays as if possess by stormy ocean waves! Brilliant, never seen anything like it!

[BrandynBoyles]

the rythyms are cool but the notes sound way too chromatic rnadom and dinnosant

[GreggaryPeccary]

rnadom and dinnosant, yeah

[jimbosingleton]

while staying at gramercy park hotel in nyc i stopped in the lounge late one night and there was cecil taylor, six sheets to the wind and dropping 20's in the tip jar and commanding the piano guy to play "ipanema" repeatedly.

[cloojam]

I wonder if he does weddings ?

[pap4456]

I'd hire 'em for a wedding!

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

He played at mine. It was a smash!

[jlevinson6]

Yes, but can't you hear that he starts out every single performance with the same theme? Oh my goodness are you all deaf?

[iwanttowatchsomethin]

I agree, more or less. He has been repeating a lot of this language for many years. I did see him perform this year, solo, and he is in fine shape as a player, and exposed as he is in the solo environment, he does tend to develop other shades of Cecil. Cecil changed my life, and I love him, but I agree that he is relying on techniques developed 30 or 40 years ago.

[jlevinson6]

Cecil playing the same theme over and over. What a waste of greatness. Got too involved in the out scene, lost the creative genius that was begun in the late fifties.

[defdeezy]

cecil taylor is more than a genius, he is a force of nature

[edcerc]

i think it was a steady progression. I think his music matured a lot throughout the years

[freein2339]

All energy

[monquio]

cecil taylor es una falta de respero a la musica

[27max]

"tsunami" sonorous.

[KawhackitaRag]

Do I hear a flex-a-tone?

[pap4456]

A true force of nature!

[dzang]

great music !

[babalu17]

Cecil and the all star NYC super group!!!!!!! Awesome! Jimmy Lyons plays for the Gods! Lord thank you!!!!!!!!!

[normloman]

This is deep!!!!!