Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1961

Official releases from 1961 sessions:

61.01.09-10 - Cell Walk For Celeste / tracks 1,2,4,5,8 [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor...,, Mosaic]
61.01.09-10 - Jumpin Punkins / tracks 3,7 [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor..., Mosaic]
61.01.09-10 - New York City R&B / track 6 [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor..., Mosaic]

61.01.10 - Cell Walk For Celeste / tracks 1,4 [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor..., Mosaic]
61.01.10 - New York City R&B / track 2, Candid 79017 (CD) [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor..., Mosaic]
61.01.10 - Jumpin Punkins, Candid 79013 (CD) / track 3,5 [Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor..., Mosaic]

61.10.10 - Mixed [Into The Hot: The Gil Evans Orchestra; The Dedication Series Vol. III: The New Breed]

Extrememly detailed Candid session listings at Rick Lopez site here

(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

61.01.09
61.01.10

[Two more Candid sessions. Details forthcoming]

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald

61.05.00

May, 1961

early - Five Spot, NYC

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO ? GROUP ?

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald: VV 5/4/61 p.10

61.06.10

June 10, 1961

"The final Candid session"

Cecil Taylor
Clark Terry
Roswell Rudd
Steve Lacy
Archie Shepp
Charles Davis
Buell Neidlinger
Billy Higgins

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald, Details forthcoming


61.10.10

October 10, 1961

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Ted Curson (t)
Roswell Rudd (tb)
Henry Grimes (b)
Sunny Murray (d)


Mixed - 10:08 (Cecil Taylor)
Pots - 05:44 (Cecil Taylor)
Bulbs - 06:49 (Cecil Taylor)

All titles on:
- MCA/Impulse! CD: MCAD-39104 - Into The Hot (1988)
- GRP/Impulse! CD: 270 - Mixed (1998)
- Impulse! LP 12": AS-9 - Into The Hot
Issued under the name of Gil Evans, who sponsored the sessions. See 10/23/61 and 10/25/61 for additional related sessions.

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald: his Henry Grimes discography

61.10.23

October 23, 1961

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Ted Curson (t)
Roswell Rudd (tb)
Henry Grimes (b)
Sunny Murray (d)


Mixed (Cecil Taylor)

Listed in ABC ledgers as "remake" - no information as to whether this is the issued take.

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald: his Henry Grimes discography

61.10.25

October 25, 1961

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Ted Curson (t)
Roswell Rudd (tb)
Henry Grimes (b)
Sunny Murray (d)

Pots (Cecil Taylor)
Bulbs (Cecil Taylor)

Both listed in ABC ledgers as "remake" - no information as to whether these are the issued takes.

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald: his Henry Grimes discography

61.11.00

November 1961

early - Five Spot, NYC

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO ? GROUP ?

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald: VV 11/2/61 p.14

61.11.04

November 4, 1961

Judson Hall, New York, NY (USA)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO ? GROUP ?

Cecil Taylor (p) others ?

Primary Source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from METRONOME magazine 12/1961, S.6 (Concert schedule, no details)

61.00.00

1961

Cafe Wha, NYC
Cafe Bizarre, NYC

Cecil Taylor

no other personnel info

"And there were all kinds of coffee shops in the Village - Cafe Wha, Cafe Bizarre, that's where I first heard Cecil Taylor in 1961, that's where I first heard Sonny Clark. There was a lot of music."

The Cafe Bizarre was at 106 W. 3rd Street, NYC.

Primary Source: Michael Fitzgerald, Kenny Barron interview in Cadence 10/89 p.9.