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Jumpin' Punkins

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Released
  
1987

Length
  
33:23

Release date
  
1987

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January 9 & 10, 1961

Artist
  
Cecil Taylor

Label
  
Candid Records

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Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
  
New York City R&B (1961)

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Jumpin' Punkins is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded for the Candid label in January 1961 but not issued in the States until 1987. The first release was in Japan by CBS/Sony in 1974. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles with Billy Higgins, Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy and Charles Davis added on one track. Additional recordings from these sessions were released on New York City R&B in 1971 and Cell Walk for Celeste in 1988.

Contents

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Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Tayor except as indicated
  1. "Jumpin' Punkins" [Take 6] (Mercer Ellington) - 8:15
  2. "O.P." [Take 1] (Buell Neidlinger) - 7:35
  3. "I Forgot" [Take 1] (Cecil Taylor) - 8:34
  4. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" [Take 3] (Ellington, Ted Persons) - 8:55
  • Recorded Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, January 9 (track 4) & 10 (tracks 1-3), 1961

    • Personnel

  • Cecil Taylor: piano
  • Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
  • Buell Neidlinger: bass
  • Denis Charles: drums (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
  • Billy Higgins: drums (track 3)
  • Clark Terry: trumpet (track 3)
  • Roswell Rudd: trombone (track 3)
  • Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone (track 3)
  • Charles Davis: baritone sax (track 3)

    • Songs

    1Jumpin' Punkins8:15
    2O P7:35
    3I Forgot8:35

    References

    Jumpin' Punkins Wikipedia
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