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Cecil Taylor

Real Name:
Cecil Percival Taylor
Profile:
b. March 15, 1929 - New York City

American jazz pianist.
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Discography

Releases:
Live At The Cafe Montmartre (3 versions)   Debut Records Denmark ... 1963
Conquistador! (Album) (5 versions)   Blue Note 1966
Unit Structures (Album) (4 versions)   Blue Note ... 1966
New York City R&B (Album) (3 versions)   Candid ... 1971
Innovations (Album) (3 versions)   Freedom ... 1972
Indent (Album) (4 versions)   Freedom 1973
Solo (LP, Album)   Trio Records 1973
In Transition (2xLP, Album)   Blue Note 1975
Silent Tongues: Live At Montreux '74 (Album) (4 versions)   Arista ... 1975
Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (Album) (4 versions)   Freedom ... 1976
The Great Concert Of Cecil Taylor (3xLP + Box)   Prestige 1977
Air Above Mountains < Buildings Within > (LP)   Inner City Records 1978
Cecil Taylor Unit (Album) (2 versions)   New World Records 1978
Embraced (2xLP, Album)   Pablo Records 1978
3 Phasis (LP, Album)   New World Records 1979
Live In The Black Forest (Album) (2 versions)   MPS Records 1979
Great Paris Concert «2» (LP, Album)   Freedom 1980
One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye (3xLP, Album + Box)   Hat Hut Records 1980
Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (LP, Album)   MPS Records 1981
It Is In The Brewing Lumnious (2xLP)   Hat Hut Records 1981
Garden (2xLP, Album)   Hat Hut Records 1982
Praxis (2xLP, Album)   Praxis (2) 1982
Student Studies (Album) (4 versions)   BYG Records ... 1982
Calling It The 8th (LP, Album)   hat MUSICS 1983
The Eighth (2xLP, Album)   Hat Hut Records 1986
For Olim (LP, Album)   Soul Note 1987
Jumpin' Punkins (LP, RE)   Candid 1987
Chinampas (LP, Album, Ltd)   Leo Records 1988
Tzotzil Mummers Tzotzil (LP, Album)   Leo Records 1988
Erzulie Maketh Scent (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
In Berlin '88 (11xCD, Album, Ltd + Box)   FMP 1989
In East-Berlin (2xCD, Album)   FMP 1989
It Is In The Brewing Luminous (CD, Album)   Hat Hut Records 1989
Leaf Palm Hand (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
Pleistozaen Mit Wasser (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
Regalia (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
Remembrance (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
Riobec (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
Spots, Circles, And Fantasy (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
The Complete Candid Recordings (6xVinyl + Box, Ltd)   Mosaic Records (2) 1989
The Hearth (CD, Album)   FMP 1989
The World Of Cecil Taylor (CD, Album)   Candid 1989
Air (CD, Album)   Candid 1990
In Florescence (CD, Album)   A&M Records 1990
Looking (Berlin Version) Solo (CD, Album)   FMP 1990
Garden (2xCD, Album, RE)   Hat Hut Records, Nippon Crown 1991
Jazz Advance (CD, Album, RE)   Blue Note 1991
Looking (Berlin Version) Corona (CD, Album)   FMP 1991
Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming Of The Masters Vol.2 (CD)   DIW Records 1991
Double Holy House (CD, Album)   FMP 1993
Live At The Cafe Montmartre (2xCD, Album)   Tokuma Japan Communications 1994
Olu Iwa (CD, Album)   Soul Note 1994
Tzotzil / Mummers / Tzotzil (CD, Album)   Leo Records 1994
3 Phasis (CD, Album, RE)   New World Records 1996
Trance (CD, Album)   Black Lion 1996
Love For Sale (CD)   Blue Note 1998
Love For Sale (CD, Album)   Blue Note 1998
The Tree Of Life (CD, Album)   FMP 1998
Nailed (CD, Album)   FMP 2000
Complicité (3xCD)   Les Disques Victo 2001
2 Ts For A Lovely T (10xCD, Ltd + Box)   Condanza Records 2002
Air Above Mountains (CD, Album)   Enja Records 2002
Taylor/Dixon/Oxley (CD, Album)   Les Disques Victo 2002
The Willisau Concert (CD, Album)   Intakt Records 2002
Almeda (CD, Album)   FMP 2004
Air Above Mountains < Buildings Within > (CD, Album, RE, RM)   Ward Records, Enja Records 2007
CT: The Dance Project (CD, Album)   FMP 2008
Air Above Mountains < Buildings Within > (LP)   Enja Records  
Fondation Maeght Nights (Vol. 1) (CD)   Jazz View  
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (3xLP + Box)   Shandar  
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 2 (LP, Album)   Shandar  
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 3 (LP, Gat)   Shandar  
Appears On:
Looking Ahead! (Album) (2 versions)   Contemporary Records 1959
Into The Hot (LP, Mono)   Impulse! 1961
At The Cafe Montmartre (LP, Album)   Fontana 1962
Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (LP, Album)   Fontana 1962
Disposability (LP, Album, Mono) Tune 2 Vik 1966
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (Album) (5 versions)   JCOA Records ... 1968
Air (LP, Album, RE) Air, Port Of Call, Eb Barnaby Records 1971
Akisakila - Cecil Taylor Unit In Japan (Album) (2 versions)   Trio Records ... 1973
Spring Of Two Blue-J's (Album) (2 versions)   Unit Core Records ... 1973
The Drums (3xLP, Comp + Box) Pots Impulse! 1974
Dark To Themselves (Album) (5 versions)   Enja Records ... 1976
Nachricht Vom Lande (2xLP)   Brain 1977
The Joy Of Flying (Album) (2 versions) Morgan's Motion CBS ... 1979
Ready For The 90s (Vinyl, Album) P.O. K2B2 Records 1980
Stereo Drive (LP, RE)   Liberty, United Artists Records 1984
Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) (LP, Album)   Soul Note 1985
Live In Bologna (Album) (2 versions)   Leo Records 1988
Live In Vienna (Album) (2 versions)   Leo Records 1988
Alms / Tiergarten (Spree) (2xCD, Album)   FMP 1989
Legba Crossing (CD)   FMP 1989
Plunderphonic (CD) Mirror Not On Label 1989
Looking (Berlin Version) (CD, Album)   FMP 1990
Coltrane Time (CD)   Blue Note 1991
The Magnificence Of Stereo (CD, Album)   Sruti Box 1992
Celebrated Blazons (CD, Album)   FMP 1993
Always A Pleasure (CD, Album)   FMP 1996
The Instrumental History Of Jazz (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Enh + Box) Enter, Evening N2K Encoded Jazz 1997
Mixed (CD)   Impulse! 1998
Qu'a Yuba: Live At The Iridium Vol.2 (CD, Album)   Cadence Jazz Records 1998
Qu'a: Live At The Irridium Vol.1 (CD, Album)   Cadence Jazz Records 1998
Melancholy (CD, Album)   FMP 1999
Burn The Incline / Free Jazz Classics (2xCD, Ltd) Conquistador Part 2 Atavistic, Atavistic 2000
Windows: The Music Of Steve Lacy (CD, Album) Louise Blue Chopsticks 2000
Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2 (2xCD, Album) Conquistador Part 2 Atavistic 2001
It Is In The Brewing Luminous (CD, Album, Dig)   Hat Hut Records 2001
The Light Of Corona (CD, Album)   FMP 2002
Incarnation (CD, Album)   FMP 2003
Holy Ghost (10xCD + Box) Four Revenant 2004
One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye (2xCD, Album, Dig)   Hat Hut Records 2004
Holy Ghost (3xLP) Four Revenant 2005
The Eighth (CD, Album, Dig)   Hat Hut Records 2006
Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) (CD, Album, RE)   Soul Note  
Tracks Appear On:
Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz (6xLP + Box) Enter Evening Smithsonian Collection 1973
The Drums (3xLP, Comp + Box) Pots Impulse! 1974
The Instrumental History Of Jazz (CD, Comp + CD, Comp, Enh + Box) Enter, Evening N2K Encoded Jazz 1997
Ken Burns Jazz: The Story Of America's Music (5xCD, Box) Rick Kick Shaw Columbia 2000
Jazzactuel (CD) Student Studies Pt. 1 Fuel 2000 2001
Unofficial Releases:
Disposability (CD, Album) Tune 2 KCD  
The Early Unit 1962 (LP, Album, Mono)   Ingo Records  
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