Love for Sale

by Cecil Taylor Trio and Quintet

Love for Sale cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: United Artists
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:56
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bridging multiple studio sessions, this project features the iconoclastic pianist aggressively dismantling popular standards and introducing his own highly angular, rhythmically displaced originals. The presence of young trumpeter Bill Dixon and saxophonist Bill Barron in the quintet tracks provides a fascinating horn texture against the leader's incredibly dense, percussive chording. The performances serve as a highly demanding, vital document of a visionary fiercely tearing down traditional harmonic structures.

Genres

Descriptors: form, Instrumental, Complex, Improvisation, Noisy, Acoustic, experimental, improvisation, avant-garde, piano, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Get Out Of Town (9:12)
  2. I Love Paris (5:13)
  3. Love For Sale (8:15)
  4. Little Lees (9:05)
  5. Matystrophe (10:11)

Credits

  • Cecil Taylor Trio - primary artist
  • Cecil Taylor Quintet - primary artist
  • Buell Neidlinger - bass
  • Rudy Collins - drums
  • Lewis Merritt - engineer
  • William Thompson - liner notes
  • Cecil Taylor - piano, written-by
  • Tom Wilson - producer
  • Bill Barron - tenor saxophone
  • Ted Curson - trumpet
  • Cole Porter - written-by

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