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| ARTIST: | Cecil Taylor |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Black Lion |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Abyss (First Movement)/Petals & Filaments (Second Movement)/Jitney (Third Movement), Crossing (Fourth Movement), Part One/Crossing (Fourth Movement), Part Two, After All (Fifth Movement), Jitney No.2, After All No.2 |
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Customer Reviews of Silent Tongues
For Taylor fans or avant-garde enthusiasts I'm a fan of Taylor's frantic style, but I think it's important to rate items based on what people who aren't aware of the artist might perceive of the work if they had to buy it, so for fans of his or Ornette Coleman's work, I say "5 stars", but understand this: most people who are into smooth jazz or even most traditional jazz would be completely turned off by this record. Taylor is a jazz-head's musician.
It's a powerful record, full of his trademark speed, delightful playfulness, and technical virtuosity, but there are more accesible records of his. Pay close attention the albums that will be re-released...there's some gems in there.
For existing fans only or avant garde heads. To everyone else, it will sound like someone pounding on a piano. You've been warned.
Best of Taylor
I own about 50 CDs of Taylor, so I know what am talking about: This is one of my favorites, beside the (even better) piano solo record "Air Above Mountains" and the two - very different - trio records "In Florescence" ( with William Parker and Gregg Bendian) and "Looking (Berlin Version)" ( with William Parker and Tony Oxley: "The Feel Trio").
Unlike the trio records, the two piano solo albums are more easily accessible. They open up a complex world of beauty. Hard to explain because there is nothing that would compare to them. They are clear, rich, intense, dynamic, serious, intelligent and warm.
You need to like jazz music or modern classical music to appreciate them. If you do: They will be with you for a long, long time.
A Pounding Pervasive Sonorous Piece
I was turned on (if you will), to Cecil Taylor by the late, great Jazz pianist Don Pullen. Not by direct verbal communication but by the music and the inspiration. "New Beginnings" and "Ode To Life" by Pullen compelled me to seek out this recording by Cecil Taylor.
Taylor literally pounds the ivories as if melody and harmony are silent tongues driven to the recesses of the soundboard and he is seeking redemption by compelling them forth.
The pounding I speak of is beautiful, more beautiful than a drum solo because of the wide ranging notes. Extensive use of the pedal to curtail notes and frequent runs of block glissando are trademarks.
This is a live recording at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 1974 and it is a clean, vibrant, resonating recording. This is great party music for it will start intelligent conversations by the raw emotive power and verve.