One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

Captured at a 1978 festival in Stuttgart, this recording presents Cecil Taylor leading a ferocious sextet featuring stalwarts like Jimmy Lyons and Raphe Malik. The pianist’s uniquely percussive, hyper-kinetic approach to the keyboard anchors extended, multi-layered improvisations that demand extreme physical endurance from the ensemble. It is widely regarded as one of the most cohesive and overwhelmingly powerful documents of Taylor's dense structural language.