Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1966

(scanned cover from 1966, thanks to francesco martinelli)
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Official releases from 1966 sessions:

66.05.19 - Unit Structures, Blue Note 7 84237 2 1987 (CD)

66.10.06 - Conquistador!, Blue Note 7 84260 2 (CD)

66.11.30 - The Great Paris Concert [Student Studies]

(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

66.00.00

Spring, 1966

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Eddie Gale (?)
Alan Silva (b)?
Henry Grimes (b)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Andrew Cyrille (d)

Pittsburgh, PA

Primary source: personal recollection by David Gitin, who attended concert, in personal email to jason hook on 3/25/03.

66.10.16

October 16, 1966

Cecil Taylor-p
Jimmy Lyons-as
Alan Silva-b
Andrew Cyrille-dr

Sendesaal Villa Berg, Stuttgart, Germany

1) Conquistador (Taylor) 41:15
2) Second Amplitude: Words (Taylor) 25:20
3) First Amplitude (Taylor) 13:45
4) Fragments Of The Sister/ Brother Dance (Taylor) 6:33

Primary source: Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000), tape of fm broadcast, #1 also documented by Ed Hazell in his unpublished C. T. discography

66.11.11

November 11, 1966

Paris, France

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

1) With (Taylor) 19:15
2) Unknown Title (Taylor) 17:50
3) Unknown Title (inc.) (Taylor) 11:15

Primary Source: Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000), tape

66.11.12

November 12, 1966

Paris, France

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

1) Unknown Title (Taylor) 6:48
2) Over There (Taylor) 18:39
3) Bright Light, Lover And Love (Taylor) 20:39
4) Unknown Title (Taylor - Solo) (Taylor) 23:00

Primary Source: Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000), tape

66.11.30

November 30, 1966

Cecil Taylor-p
Jimmy Lyons-as
Alan Silva-b
Andrew Cyrille-dr

Paris

1. Bread, Wine, Lover, and Loved
2. Amplitude
3. Student Studies (N/C)

(setlist in strom's book)
1) Over There (Taylor) 17:09
2) Bright Light, Lover And Love (Taylor) 19:18

[Total time ~41 minutes]

Primary source: tape, setlist: Ed Hazell in his unpublished C. T. discography, Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000)

66.11.00

November, 1966

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Paris

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

Primary Source: Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000).
Movie "L'Oute Corte" (On The Other Side Of The Tracks) produced by Luc Ferrari.

66.12.01

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

Grand Amphi Theatre De La Droit, Paris

Primary Source: Info from Jan Ström "Jimmy Lyons - a Sessionography" (2000).
No recordings are known to be in existence from this show.