Cecil Taylor

• 2-CD SET

This was the year in which Bologna was elected European Capital of Culture and the AngelicA Festival invited Cecil Taylor to hold a concert, which is the subject of Disc 1. Disc 2 records the proceedings the next day at the Palazzo dei Notai when Taylor gave a public meeting/interview, opening with a statement read by him on the definition of music. This document is issued in its entirety in a booklet with the album.

Here at AngelicA 10, Cecil Taylor played his kind of jazz, full to overflowing with sensual animation and physicality, but it’s much more complex than that. He was instrumental in familiarising the jazz soundscape with the concept of atonality, in which the music lacks a tonal focus or principal key. He abhorred the fact that critics would often align their criticism of his music only to the atonal, the technical side of his music, when he wanted listeners to hear all of its content, the roots within. He argued that this limitation accentuated only part of the music instead of its totality.

Recognised as a genius in his day, Cecil Taylor changed the face of jazz as a futurist radical might and he did so consistently. It seems probable, on listening to others, that his jazz was way ahead of much of what we might hear today.

PERSONNEL:

• Cecil Taylor (piano, vocals)

TRACKS:

• CD ONE
• 01. Dance of All Seasons - part 1
• 02. Dance of All Seasons - part 2
• 03. Dance of All Seasons - part 3

• CD TWO
• 01. Dance of All Seasons / Possessing a Door
• 02. The Arc of Suspension
• 03. No One has the Ownership of Pure Genius
• 04. Through the Devotion to Sound to Make Words
• 05. I Have Many People That I Bow To
• 06. The Ingredient of Life
• 07. And Then Usually You Have a Good Time
• 08. No Matter What