Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1958

Official releases from 1958 sessions:

58.06.09 - Looking Ahead
58.10.13 - Coltrane Time [Hard Drivin' Jazz; Stereo Drive]

(from Rick Lopez' site), "Seed documents via Igor Danilishen and Robert Shapiro. Detailed listing with many additional alternate releases at Robert Shapiro's Sessionography of Cecil Taylor"

Last updated on 3/07

58.06.09

June 9, 1958

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Earl Griffith (vib)
Buell Neidlinger (b)
Denis Charles (d)

Lookin' Ahead (Contemporary) is recorded.

Tracks:

Luyah! The Glorious Step - 06:25 (Cecil Taylor)
African Violets - 05:12 (Earl Griffith, Cecil Taylor)
Of What - 08:18 (Cecil Taylor)
Wallering - 05:17 (Cecil Taylor)
Toll - 07:33 (Cecil Taylor)
Excursion On A Wobbly Rail - 09:04 (Cecil Taylor)

All titles on:
- Original Jazz Classics CD: OJCCD-452-2 - Looking Ahead!
- Contemporary LP 12": M-3562 - Looking Ahead!
- Contemporary LP 12": S-7562 - Looking Ahead!

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald http://www16.brinkster.com/fitzgera/ct1950.htm
also: http://soo.holywar.net/artist/doc/cecil_disc.txt

58.08.02

August 2, 1958

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Sylvester Gandi (b)
Denis Charles (d)

Great South Bay Festival, LI

Unknown titles:

"The most challenging set of the festival concerts caught by this reviewer was presented by Cecil Taylor and his trio. With Sylvester Gandi on bass and Dennis Charles on drums, Taylor played a characteristically jagged, jarring set of compositions in which the bits and pieces of melodies were gradually pieced together in a mosaic of often dazzling quality. Taylor's driving gush of phrases is something awesome to hear. Although many in the audience questioned the jazz content of his presentation, emcee Nat Hentoff indicated beforehand that he felt Taylor to be potentially one of the moving forces in jazz, and the one who is most likely to become significant." - Dom Cerulli, down beat

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald: down beat: 9/18/58 p.50, VV 7/16/58 p.4

58.10.13

October 13, 1958

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
John Coltrane (ts)
Kenny Dorham (t)
Chuck Israels (b)
Louis Hayes (d)

Hard Driving Jazz (United Artists) is recorded.

Tracks:

Shifting Down - 10:37 (Kenny Dorham)
Blue Note CD: CDP 7 84461 2 - Coltrane Time (1991)
United Artists LP 12": UAL 4014 - Hard Driving Jazz
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5014 - Stereo Drive
Boplicity LP 12": BOP 1 - Coltrane Time (1983)

Caravan (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol)

Like Someone In Love - 08:07 (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
Blue Note CD: CDP 7 84461 2 - Coltrane Time (1991)
United Artists LP 12": UAL 4014 - Hard Driving Jazz
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5014 - Stereo Drive
Boplicity LP 12": BOP 1 - Coltrane Time (1983)

Just Friends - 06:13 (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis)
Blue Note CD: CDP 7 84461 2 - Coltrane Time (1991)
United Artists LP 12": UAL 4014 - Hard Driving Jazz
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5014 - Stereo Drive
Boplicity LP 12": BOP 1 - Coltrane Time (1983)

Double Clutching - 08:17 (Chuck Israels)
Blue Note CD: CDP 7 84461 2 - Coltrane Time (1991)
United Artists LP 12": UAL 4014 - Hard Driving Jazz
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5014 - Stereo Drive
Boplicity LP 12": BOP 1 - Coltrane Time (1983)

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald: http://www16.brinkster.com/fitzgera/ct1950.htm
also: http://soo.holywar.net/artist/doc/cecil_disc.txt
Timings from http://www.alwaysontherun.net/coltrane/coltranetime.htm