Air Above Mountains <Buildings Within>

by Cecil Taylor

Air Above Mountains <Buildings Within> cover art

Performed at an outdoor Austrian festival in 1976, this continuous, eighty-minute solo piano improvisation highlights Taylor's extreme physical stamina. He constructs and dismantles colossal, highly complex clusters of dissonance, demonstrating an architectural approach to the keyboard that resembles avant-garde percussion as much as traditional piano.

Genres

  • Free Jazz

Tracklist

  1. Air Above Mountains < Buildings Within > Part One
  2. Air Above Mountains < Buildings Within > Part Two