Biography

Rivalled perhaps only by Art Tatum as a virtuoso of jazz piano, Taylor combines the compositional grandeur of the European tradition with a technique of jackhammer intensity to create marathon tsunamis of joy, rage, lyricism, humor, and pathos. Since the '50s, this perennial radical has shaped a body of work that, in its range and audacity, makes him arguably one of two or three most original jazz artists of the post-war period.

Top Tracks

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• Air

• Amplitude

• Cun-un-un-un-an

• Duets, Pt. 1

• Duets, Pt. 2

• E.b.

• Excursion On A Wobbly Rail

• For The Rabbit

• I Love Paris

• Living [dedicated To Julian Beck]

• Love For Sale

• Niggle Feuigle

• Olim

• Olu Iwa [lord Of Character]

• Pots

• Puuc, Pt. 1

• Reinforced Concrete, Pt. 2

• Reinforced Concrete, Pt. 3

• Satan's Dance

• Steps

• Student Studies, Pt. 1

• Student Studies, Pt. 2

• The Old Canal

• The Question

• Unit Structure/as Of A Now/section

• Wallering

• Womb Waters Scent Of The Burning Armadillo Shell

Discography

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• The Owner of the River Bank

  Enja/Justin Time

  2004

• All the Notes

  Cadence Records

  2004

• Cecil Taylor: Algonquin

  Bridge

  2004

• Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley

  Victo

  2002

• Complicité

  Victo

  2001

• Mixed

  Impulse! / GRP

  1998

• Qu'a: Live at the Irridium, Vol. 1

  Cadence Jazz

  1998

• Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Irridium, Vol. 2

  Cadence Jazz

  1998

• Trance

  DA Music / Black Lion

  1997

• The Light of Corona

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany) / Free Music Production

  1996

• Always a Pleasure

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1993

• Melancholy

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1990

• Double Holy House

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1990

• Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil

  Leo

  1990

• Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1989

• Erzulie Maketh Scent

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1988

• Leaf Palm Hand

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany) / Jazzwerkstatt

  1988

• The Hearth

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1988

• Legba Crossing

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1988

• Riobec

  FMP/Free Music Production (Germany)

  1988

• In East Berlin

  Free Music Production

  1988

• Chinampas

  Leo

  1987

• Live in Vienna

  Leo Records / Leo

  1987

• Olu Iwa

  Soul Note (Italy)

  1986

• Garden Pt. 2

  hatART

  1981

• Garden Pt. 1

  hatART

  1981

• Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!

  MPS Records

  1980

• It Is in the Brewing Luminous

  hatART

  1980

• The Dedication Series, Vol. 8: The New Breed

  ABC/Impulse

  1979

• The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor

  Prestige Records

  1977

• Fondation Maeght Nights, Vol. 2

  Jazz View

  1969

• Fondation Maeght Nights, Vol. 3

  Jazz View

  1969

• Fondation Maeght Nights, Vol. 1

  Jazz View

  1969

• The Great Paris Concert

  Black Lion

  1966

• Student Studies

  Fuel 2000

  1966

• Live at the Cafe Montmartre

  Fantasy

  1964

• Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come

  Revenant

  1962

• Love for Sale

  Blue Note

  1959

• Stereo Drive

  United Artists Records

  1959

• Cecil Taylor Plays Cole Porter

  United Artists Records

  1959

• Coltrane Time

  United Artists Records

  1958