The World of Cecil Taylor
by Cecil Taylor
- Type: Album
- Released: 1961
- Label: Candid
- Country: United States
- Length: 33:53
- Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A crucial document capturing Cecil Taylor's transition towards the monumental, free-form energy music he would later pioneer. His percussive, athletic piano style is on full display, treating the instrument less as a chordal tool and more as a 'drum orchestra.'
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, piano, complex, percussive, classic
Tracklist
- Air (8:41)
- This Nearly Was Mine (10:52)
- Port of Call (4:22)
- E.B. (9:58)
Credits
- Cecil Taylor - primary artist, piano, composed by
- Buell Neidlinger - bass, liner notes
- Frank Gauna - design
- Denis Charles - drums
- Bob D'Orleans - engineer
- Martin Williams - liner notes
- Nat Hentoff - liner notes, supervised by
- Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone
- Rodgers & Hammerstein - composed by
- Jerome Moross - composed by
- John Latouche - composed by