The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
Live album by Cecil Taylor
Released 1977
Recorded July 29, 1969
Genre Free jazz
Label Prestige
Cecil Taylor chronology
Praxis
(1969)		 The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
(1969)		 Indent
(1973)
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969, and released on the Prestige label in 1977 as a 3-LP set. The album was originally released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght on the French Shandar label as a box set, as three separate LPs in 1971.[3] It features a performance by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers and Andrew Cyrille.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn states "Three discs of amazing playing".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.
  1. "Second Act Of A (Part 1)" - 21:17
  2. "Second Act Of A (Part 2)" - 20:51
  3. "Second Act Of A (Part 3)" - 18:08
  4. "Second Act Of A (Part 4)" - 16:11
  5. "Second Act Of A (Part 5)" - 12:45
  6. "Second Act Of A (Part 6)" - 20:38
  • Recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 189. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Maurer, E., Discography of Shandar Records accessed October 28, 2015
  4. ↑ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed 17 July 2009
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