The Cecil Taylor Unit

by Cecil Taylor

The Cecil Taylor Unit cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: New World
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:34
  • Community rating: 4.46/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Documenting a furious, highly complex studio session, this album features Taylor's piano anchoring an aggressive sextet configuration. The dense, rapid-fire interplay pushes free jazz to its absolute limits of endurance and structural abstraction, cementing his reputation as a formidable avant-garde bandleader.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, instrumental, avant-garde, complex, improvisation, acoustic, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Idut (14:40)
  2. Serdab (14:13)
  3. Holiday En Masque (29:41)

Credits

  • Cecil Taylor - primary artist, piano, composed by
  • Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
  • David X. Young - artwork [cover], task artwork
  • Sirone - bass
  • Ronald Shannon Jackson - drums
  • Raphe Malik - trumpet

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