The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
Live album by Cecil Taylor
Released	1977
Recorded	July 29, 1969
Genre	Free jazz
Label	Prestige
Cecil Taylor chronology
Praxis (1969) The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (1977) Indent (1973)
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969, and released on the Prestige label in 1977 as a 3-LP set. The album was originally released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght on the French Shandar label as a box set, consisting of three separate LPs in 1971.^[3] It features a performance by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers and Andrew Cyrille.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow refers to this recording as "a real blowout" and "a major release," and states: "The music is unrelentingly intense and Taylor does not let up for a moment.... listeners new to Taylor's music should investigate his solo piano works first."^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.

1. "Second Act Of A (Part 1)" - 21:17
2. "Second Act Of A (Part 2)" - 20:51
3. "Second Act Of A (Part 3)" - 18:08
4. "Second Act Of A (Part 4)" - 16:11
5. "Second Act Of A (Part 5)" - 12:45
6. "Second Act Of A (Part 6)" - 20:38

• Recorded in St. Paul de Vence, Nice, on July 29, 1969

Personnel

• Cecil Taylor: piano
• Jimmy Lyons: alto saxophone
• Sam Rivers: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Andrew Cyrille: drums

References

1. Yanow, Scott. "The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 189. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. Maurer, E., Discography of Shandar Records accessed October 28, 2015