Cecil Taylor - The Eighth (1981) {Hat Hut Records hatOLOGY 622 rel 2006)
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano
Recorded live in West Germany in 1981, THE EIGHTH is an aptly named Cecil Taylor concert. Listened to casually (though it's hard to imagine this music listened to casually), one hears four virtuosi–Taylor on piano, Jimmy Lyons (alto sax), William Parker (bass), and Rashid Bakr (drums)–playing maelstroms of dense music. Closer listening reveals symphonic ambition, mystical leanings, and the magic of numbers. The eighth can also refer to an octave, one of Taylor's favorite intervals.
The opening hour-long piece starts with a ritual: hands drum the outside of the Bosendorfer piano as voices shout/sing in the background. As in almost all Taylor compositions, the players quickly bring themselves to a point of no reserve. Lyons and Taylor spin and flutter notes over Parker and Bakr's shifty rhythms. Although there are some striking moments (Cecil plays an avant-garde ragtime to a bell) the piece never really sheds the formality that its name implies.
The second piece, 10 minutes long, opens with references to 19th-century music. Within a few minutes, the players transform themselves into a tornado, wrecking all pretense and making full-blown and satisfying music. The opening motifs return, this time with a humorous, gospel slant.
Personnel:
Cecil Taylor - Bösendorfer piano
Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
William Parker - double bass
Rashid Bakr - drums
Recorded November 8th,1981 at Freiburger Jazztage Freiburg, Germany.
Tracklist:
01. Calling It The 8th 18:16
02. Calling It The 8th 22:44
03. Calling It The 8th 17:09
04. Calling It The 9th 10:51
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Cecil Taylor Unit / The Eighth
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Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 98
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : C:\Archivos de programa\FLAC\flac.exe (User Defined Encoder)
192 kBit/s
Additional command line options : –best -V -T "date=%y" -T "genre=%m" %s
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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