Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1959

Official releases from 1959 sessions:

59.04.15 - Love for Sale [In Transition]

(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

59.04.15

April 15, 1959

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Bill Barron (ts)
Ted Curson (t)
Buell Neidlinger (b)
Denis Charles (d)

Location: Nola Studios, New York City
Label: United Artists

Tracks:

Get Out Of Town - 09:12 (Cole Porter)
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5046 - Love For Sale

I Love Paris - 05:11 (Cole Porter)
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5046 - Love For Sale

Love For Sale - 08:15 (Cole Porter)
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5046 - Love For Sale

Little Lees (Louise) - 09:04 (Cecil Taylor)
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5046 - Love For Sale

Matie's Trophies (Motystrophe) - 10:13 (Cecil Taylor)
United Artists LP 12": UAS 5046 - Love For Sale

Carol/Three Points - 08:16 (Cecil Taylor)

All titles on:
- Blue Note CD: CDP 7243 4 94107 2 5 - Love For Sale (1998)

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald: http://www16.brinkster.com/fitzgera/ct1950.htm,
Blue Note 94107

59.11.14

November 14, 1959

Folkcity, NYC

Cecil Taylor
(no personnel details)

"Folkcity in NYC celebrated their twentieth anniversary. Opening act 11/14/59 was Cecil
Taylor..."

Primary source: Rick Lopez, CADENCE Vol.6 #1 January 1980 p.2]

59.11.28

November 28, 1959

Location: Town Hall, New York City

Cecil Taylor Unit (?)

Cecil Taylor (p)
No details on personnel.

(unknown titles)

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald: VV 11/18/59 p.6



00.00.59

In early 1959?

Cecil Taylor Quintet

Circle In The Square, NYC

Notes: "Midnight Jazz Profiles are now heard at the Circle In The Square, Sheridan
Square, having moved from the Nonagon Gallery on Second Avenue. The Cecil
Taylor quintet is doing the honors."

Primary source: Info from Mike Fitzgerald: down beat 4/16/59 p.10