Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1976

76.01.30

January 30, 1976

New Foxhole Cafe, Penn Universit, Philadelphia, PA

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
? (tb)
Raphé Malik (tp)
? (d)

1.unknown title [80:40] (incomplete, cuts in at beginning, split track at 40:31, cuts out at end)

Note: Some tapes have the venue listed incorrectly as "The Empty Foxhole". --Rick Lopez

Rick Lopez has some very interesting anecdotes that Cecil bandmate, Marc Edwards wrote about this show here on his site.

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, Tape

76.03.04

March 4, 1976

La Mama Theatre, New York, NY (USA)

CECIL TAYLOR “A Rat’s Mass”

Cecil Taylor (dir, comp)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal, Info from web-site http://www.lamama.org/archivesfolder/1976page.htm (playlist, no details).

76.03.30

March 30, 1976

Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p,voc)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Raphe Malik (tp)
David Ware (ts)
Marc Edwards (dr)

Primary source: Info from Jan Ström “Jimmy Lyons – a Sessionography” (2000).

76.04.15

April 15, 1976

Cecil Taylor Unit

Original broadcast WCBN-FM / National Public Radio "Jazz Alive"

The Power Center
Michigan State University at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

1.Unknown title [32:08]
2.Cecil Taylor announcement [00:20]
3.Petals (incomplete) [13:50]

Rick Lopez has some very interesting anecdotes that Cecil bandmate, Marc Edwards wrote about this show here on his site.

This tape is the second set of the Ann Arbor concert. (Does a recording of the first set exist?) Track one is an interesting piece in that it differs from the usual Taylor ensemble methodology: The piece begins with a drum solo (there is a split-second drop-out about 1:00 in); leads into a piano-tenorsax duet; [11:00 in] segues into a piano-altosax-drum trio segment; [18:00 in] becomes a piano-trumpet duo until ending. --Rick Lopez

The applause following track one leads to Cecil Taylor's calling out "Petals... just once through... Petals..." The very ending of this track is cut off-- (just a few moments from where the announcement by NPR appears on the inferior tape discussed below. *) --Rick Lopez

* There is also a tape circulating listed as "2 tracks, 48:00."
On this tape the tracks have been somehow reversed. The sound quality (not very good on track 1) descends to near horrible on the"unknown title," and proceeds to the end commentary by A.B. Spellman of NPR's "Jazz Alive." The 2nd track begins and ends w/ edit cuts. Taylor's voice is not heard here. Strange (and sad) how these things get cut up. If anyone owning the piss-poor version of this session tape wants an improved copy, send me your copy along with a blank tape and SASE, and I'll dub it for you. Feel free to pass word along to anyone who you know who either passed this version on to you or has received it from you. It must be killed. --Rick Lopez

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Marc Edwards (d)

Primary Source: Rick Lopez; Tapes; CD-R;

76.04.24

April 24, 1976

Village Gate, New York, NY (USA)

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Raphe Malik (tp)
David Ware (ts)
Marc Edwards (dr)

Primary Source: Info from Rick Lopez web-site http://www.velocity.net/~bb10k/WARE.disc.html.



76.05.00

May 1976

Village Vanguard, New York, NY (USA)

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Raphe Malik (tp)
David Ware (ts)
Marc Edwards (dr)

1) Untitled Improvisation (inc.) (Taylor) 95:24

Primary Source: Info from Jan Ström “Jimmy Lyons – a Sessionography” (2000). Private Tape (audience recording) exists.

76.05.28
76.05.29
76.05.30

The Cecil Taylor Unit / New Foxhole Cafe, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

"Since we were in Philadelphia, Sun Ra attended at least one of the shows. I can't recall if he was there for all three nights. Many of the players in his band also came. They really enjoyed the music. These performances drew a sizeable crowd. A good audience helps to make things happen." -- Marc Edwards, correspondence to Rick Lopez

76.06.04

June 4, 1976

Moers (D), 4th New Jazz Festival (04.06. – 07.06.1976)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 41:10
2) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 6:20

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Private Tape (audience recording) CD 209.

76.06.07

June 7, 1976

Amsterdam (NL)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 94:00

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Private Tape (audience recording)

76.06.10

June 10, 1976

Landesmuseum, Münster (D)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Jazzpodium 7/1976, S.19 (Concert review)

76.06.18

The Cecil Taylor Unit: Dark to Themselves- Released See Robert Shapiro's disco

76.06.20

June 20, 1976

Rotterdam Jazz Festival
De Doelen
Rotterdam, NetheRick Lopezands

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Marc Edwards (d)

* There are private tapes circulating with the date mistaken as 76.07.20. --Rick Lopez

announcement [2:30]
1.Five C.T.
Be a Red Aisle Runner
[Continuous set / Total time 68:34] (split track, fades out and back in at 43:22)

[Total time: 71:54]

Rick Lopez has some very interesting anecdotes that Cecil bandmate, Marc Edwards wrote about this show here on his site.

Also, this interesting tidbit from Rick Lopez's site: Drummer Marc Edwards:
"...In some ways, this performance eclipses DTT. "

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, CD-R; date confirmed by Marc Edwards.

76.06.30

June 30, 1976

Onkel Pö, Hamburg, Germany

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Marc Edwards (d)

1.Dumping Petal Point and Sunflowers / Part 1 [39:00]
2.Dumping Petal Point and Sunflowers / Part 2 [29:00]
3.Don't Send Me No Pebbles from Georgia (incomplete) [44:00]
4.First Word I-II (incomplete) [54:00]

Tape listed as "1 track, 168:00."
Track 3 is another version of 76.06.18's "Streams and Chorus of Seed," and track 4 also contains further development of
some of the same motifs.

[Also:] Tape listed as same date, "...a short German radio broadcast from a jazz club called "Onkel Pö."

1.German introduction [0:20]
2.Don't Send Me No Pebbles from Georgia, Part 2 [20:55]

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, 1st Tape; info via Jan Ström; & info via Marc Edwards
2nd Tape not in my collection.

76.07.03

July 3, 1976

Arena Sferisterio, Macerata (I), Jazz Festival

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p,voc)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Raphe Malik (tp)
David Ware (ts)
Marc Edwards (dr)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Jan Ström “Jimmy Lyons – a Sessionography” (2000).
Info from Coda Nr.151, Oct/Nov 1976, S.24,25 (Festivalreport, short concert review).

76.07.09

July 9, 1976

Cecil Taylor Unit:

Cecil Taylor (piano)
Jimmy Lyons (alto sax)
Raphe Malik (trumpet)
David S. Ware (tenor sax)
Marc Edwards (drums)


Casino Montreux
Montreux Jazzfestival
Montreux, Switzerland

1. Alougu (25:30)
2. Llians (17:30)

Primary Source: Rick Lopez

76.07.10

July 10, 1976

Cecil Taylor Unit

Venue ?
La Rochelle, France

1.unknown title [88:04] (incomplete, continuous set, split track at 45:40, cuts out at end)

Rick Lopez has some very interesting and extensive anecdotes that Cecil bandmate, Marc Edwards wrote about this show here on his site.

Cecil Taylor (p; voc)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Alan Silva (b; voc)
Marc Edwards (d)

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, 2CD-R; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons, A Sessionography, p.36; info via Marc Edwards.

76.07.11

July 11, 1976

Nimes (F), Recontres avec la Musique de Jazz (09.07 – 14.07.1976)

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
Raphe Malik (tp)
David Ware (ts)
Marc Edwards (dr)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Jazzpodium 7/1976, S.32 (Concert schedule, no details).

76.07.14

July 14, 1976

Cecil Taylor Unit

Broadcast by Radio Stadt Bremen, Tape #JZ 5288

SendeSaal Saal Studio
Bremen, Germany

Private Tape:
1.Winds Alight Stepping Silver [approx. 120:00]

Broadcast Tape:
announcement [0:29]
1.Winds Alight Stepping Silver (excerpt) [32:49]
announcement [0:36]
2.Winds Alight Stepping Silver (excerpt) [27:48]
announcement [0:24]

[Total time: 62:40]

*** NOTE *** : Broadcast tape is also circulating with incorrect date of "77.03.00".

Drummer Marc Edwards:
"This performance took place in a radio studio - for a live broadcast."

Jimmy Lyons, A Sessionography: "[tracks 1 and 2 were] broadcast at different occasions but given the same date and title, [indicating] one performance... broadcast in two parts."

Cecil Taylor (p; voc)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Marc Edwards (d)

Primary Source: Tape & info via Marc Edwards; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons, A Sessionography, p.6 UPDATE 02-0130; info via Holger Neuhaus & Heinrich Smejkal.

20.07.1976

July 20, 1976

Basilica Di Massenzio, Rom (I)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Coda Nr.151, Oct/Nov 1976, S.25 (Concert review).

76.07.22

July 22, 1976

Turin (I)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 53:20
2) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 10:00

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Private Tape (audience recording)

76.07.24

July 24, 1976

Antibes – Juan les Pins (F), Jazz Festival (16.07. – 25.07.1976)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 54:50
2) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 12:50

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Coda Nr.151, Oct/Nov 1976, S.25 (Short notice).
Info from JAZZFORUM Nr.44/ Dec.1976, S.14 (Short notice). Private Tape (audience recording)

76.07.30

July 30, 1976

Turin (I)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 76:20

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Private Tape (audience recording)

76.07.31

July 31, 1976

Ravenna (I)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 60:00

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Coda Nr.151, Oct/Nov 1976, S.25 (Short notice). Private Tape (audience recording)

76.07.00

July 1976

Vercelli (I)

Florenz (I)

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from Coda Nr.151, Oct/Nov 1976, S.25 (Short notice).

76.08.02
76.08.03

August 2, 3, 1976

Festival di Macerata, Italy

Cecil Taylor Unit:

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David Ware (ts)
Raphe Malik (t)
MarcEdwards (d)

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, MUSICA JAZZ July 1976 p.27 / on-line index

76.11.06

November 11, 1976

The Kitchen, New York, NY (USA), The Bösendorfer Festival

CECIL TAYLOR SOLO

Cecil Taylor (p)

Primary source: Heinrich Smejkal: Info from web-site http://www.thekitchen.org/info/76_3.html (Archive listing of past performers).
Info from Coda Nr.153, Jan/Feb.1977, S.32 (Short notice – benefit concerts for the Kitchen at Eisner and Lubin auditorium, New York).

76.12.11

December 11, 1976

Village Gate
New York City

Cecil Taylor Unit

Cecil Taylor (p)
Jimmy Lyons (as)
David S. Ware (ts)
Raphé Malik (tp)
Beaver Harris (d)

1.First set [:]
2.Second set [:]

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, Tape

76.00.00

1976

Festival del Jazz, Arles, Italy

Cecil Taylor: (no personnel details)

Primary Source: Rick Lopez, MUSICA JAZZ October 1976 p.37 (on-line index)