Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1968

Official releases from 1968 sessions:

68.06.20-21 - Jazz Composer's Orchestra
68.07.00 - Praxis

(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

68.04.19

April 19, 1968

CECIL TAYLOR SEXTET

Greek Theatre, University of CA, Berkely, CA (USA), Festival Centennial Jazz '68

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Frank Wright (ts)
Eddie Gale (tp)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

1) Unknown (Taylor) 45:00

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Jazzpodium 6/1968, S,180, 181 (Festival report).

68.05.23
68.05.24
68.05.25

May 23, 24, 25, 1968

Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (USA)

May 23, 24, 25, 1968

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
prob.Jimmy Lyons (as)
Eddie Gale (tp)
Alan Silva (b)
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from web-site http://www.dreamscape.com/posters/fillmorerehc.html (Showbill postcard, no details).

68.10.06

October 6, 1968

Bologna (I) Jazz Festival

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from JAZZFORUM 1/1969, S.50 (Concert review).
Info from Jazzpodium 10/1968, S.300 (Concert schedule).

68.10.17 or 18 or 19

October 1968

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

SALA KONGRESOWA (in English: Congress Hall, Palace of Culture and Science), Warsaw (PL) Jazz Jamboree

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from JAZZFORUM 1/1969, S.40, 42, 46 (Concert review). Date and location further specified by Darek Pietak: Jazz Jamboree was October 17,18,19, 1968.

68.00.00

1968

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Upton Auditorium, Buffalo, NY (USA), Festival of Contemporary Art

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

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from DOWN BEAT Vol.35 No.11 (30.05.1968), S.34 (Caught in the act - concert review).