Silent Tongues

by Cecil Taylor

Silent Tongues cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Freedom
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:55
  • Community rating: 4.26/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974, this unyielding solo piano performance highlights Taylor's percussive, massively energetic approach to the instrument. Blending breathtaking velocity with complex, dissonant clusters, the set is celebrated as one of his most powerful and physically demanding unaccompanied recordings.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, complex, technical, avant-garde, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Abyss (First Movement) - Petals & Filaments (Second Movement) - Jitney (Third Movement) (18:21)
  2. Crossing (Fourth Movement) (18:40)
  3. After All (Fifth Movement) (9:52)
  4. Jitney No. 2 (4:11)
  5. After All No. 2 (2:49)

Credits

  • Cecil Taylor - primary artist, piano, composed by
  • Benno Friedman - artwork [cover art]

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