Jazz Advance

by Cecil Taylor

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1957
  • Label: Transition
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:18:43
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Tom Wilson, Buell Neidlinger, Steve Lacy, Denis Charles, Dave Coleman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the pianist's remarkably audacious debut, this recording actively deconstructs traditional bebop vocabulary through intense dissonance and highly percussive, clustered chording. While still tethered to a recognizable rhythm section featuring Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, the structures constantly threaten to explode into pure, abstract free improvisation. It signaled the arrival of a fiercely uncompromising visionary who would fundamentally alter the trajectory of modern jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental, avant-garde, technical, dissonant, atonal, percussive

Tracklist

  1. Bemsha Swing (7:26)
  2. Charge 'Em Blues (11:06)
  3. Azure (7:29)
  4. Song (5:19)
  5. You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To (9:17)
  6. Rick Kick Shaw (6:06)
  7. Sweet and Lovely (6:39)
  8. Johnny Come Lately - Live (7:13)
  9. Nona's Blues - Live (7:39)
  10. Tune 2 - Live (10:24)

Credits

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