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Released
  
1989

Leaf Palm Hand (1989)
  
In Florescence (1990)

Release date
  
1989

Genre
  
Free jazz

Recorded
  
July 17, 1988

Artists
  
Cecil Taylor, Tony Oxley

Label
  
FMP/Free Music Production

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Similar
  
Cecil Taylor albums, Free jazz albums

Leaf Palm Hand is a live album featuring a performance by Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley recorded in Berlin on July 17, 1988 as part of month long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.

Contents

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "There's no letup for the entire set; it's one dazzling display after another until the piece just implodes from exhaustion — physical, that is, as the ideas still come fast and furious — and leaves the listener dazed and awed by such a soulful yet pyrotechnic display. This is one of Cecil Taylor's most "melodic" improvisations ever".

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley except as indicated.
  1. "Stylobate 1" - 17:26
  2. "Leaf Palm Hand" - 42:20
  3. "Chimes (Cecil Taylor) - 3:50
  4. "Stylobate 2" - 3:23
  5. "The Old Canal" (Taylor) - 2:42
  • Recorded in Berlin on July 17, 1988

    • Personnel

  • Cecil Taylor: piano
  • Tony Oxley: drums

    • Songs

    1Stylobate 117:27
    2Leaf Palm Hand42:20
    3Chimes3:50

    References

    Leaf Palm Hand Wikipedia
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