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Historic Concerts

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Released
  
1984

Length
  
106:38

Label
  
Soul Note

Recorded
  
December 15, 1979

Release date
  
1984

Genre
  
Free jazz

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Artists
  
Cecil Taylor, Max Roach, Cecil Taylor & Max Roach

Similar
  
Cecil Taylor albums, Free jazz albums, Other albums

Historic Concerts is a live album by Cecil Taylor and Max Roach recorded at the McMillin Theatre, Columbia University, NYC on December 15, 1979 and released on the Soul Note label in 1984. The album features solo and duet performances by Taylor and Roach along with interviews recorded after the concert (included only on the CD editions).

Contents

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The passionate music is quite atonal but coherent, with Taylor displaying an impressive amount of energy and the two masters (who had not rehearsed or ever played together before) communicating pretty well".

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor & Max Roach.
  1. "Presentation" - 1:06
  2. "Drums Solo" - 5:02
  3. "Piano Solo" - 5:04
  4. "Duets, Part 1" - 40:04
  5. "Duets, Part 2" - 38:32
  6. "Interviews, Part 1" - 9:36
  7. "Interviews, Part 2" - 7:14
  • Recorded at the McMillin Theatre, Columbia University, NYC on December 15, 1979

    • Personnel

  • Cecil Taylor: piano
  • Max Roach: drums

    • Songs

    1Presentation1:06
    2Drums Solo5:02
    3Piano Solo5:04

    References

    Historic Concerts Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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