Released 1966 Unit Structures
(1966) Conquistador!
(1966) Release date 1966 Label Blue Note Records | Length 46:27 Artist Cecil Taylor Producer Alfred Lion Genre Free jazz | |
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Recorded May 19, 1966
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Similar Conquistador!, Jazz Advance, Silent Tongues, The World of Cecil Taylor, Nefertiti - the Beautiful | ||
Cecil taylor unit structures full album
Unit Structures is a 1966 album by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor released by Blue Note Records. Unusually, Taylor's group features two bassists, one (Alan Silva) playing mostly with a bow, and the other (Henry Grimes) playing mostly pizzicato.
Contents
Cecil taylor unit structures 1966 full album
Reception
The Allmusic Review by Scott Yanow states "Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement... In fact, it could be safely argued that no jazz music of the era approached the ferocity and intensity of Cecil Taylor's". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it four and a half stars, writing "Unit Structures is both as mathematically complex as its title suggests and as rich in colour and sound as the ensemble proposes, with the orchestrally varied sounds of the two bassists — Grimes a strong, elemental driving force, Silva tonally fugitive and mysterious — while Stevens and McIntyre add other hues and Lyons improvises with and against them."
Track listing
All compositions written by Cecil Taylor.
- "Steps" – 10:20
- "Enter, Evening" – 11:06
- "Enter, Evening [alternate take]" – 10:11 Bonus track on CD release
- "Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section" – 17:47
- "Tales (8 Whisps)" – 7:14
Personnel
Songs
1Steps10:19
2Enter - Evening (Soft Line Structure)11:07
3Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section17:45