Cecil Taylor Recordings/Sessions from 1990
(last updated 03.09.28)

90.06.29

(Cecil Taylor) The Feel Trio: Celebrated Blazons

Free Music Production FMP CD 58 (CD) 1993 GER

June 29, 1990
Workshop Freie Musik 1986
Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Germany

1.Celebrated Blazons [56:41]
(3 in One)
Lords of the House
Deep Water
Realm of the Wilds
3 in One

(Composition, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (p; voc)
William Parker (bass)
Tony Oxley (drums)

{Primary Source: RL, FMP CD 58}

90.07.08

[Cecil Taylor: Concrete]

Musica Jazz Magazine, January 1998 issue w/ FMP MJ 02 (CD) 1998 IT

[See also: 88.07.02, 89.11.02, and 89.11.03 & 89.11.04.]

July 8, 1990
Berlin, Germany

1.Soul Activities / Willing [11:18]

(Composition, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (piano)
William Parker (bass)
Masashi Harada (perc)

{Primary Source: RL, FMP MJ 02; info via R. Shapiro's Cecil Taylor Sessionography.}

90.07.12-15

Cecil Taylor: (no personnel details) probably Parker, Oxley / North Sea Jazz Festival, The Hague, Netherlands

[WIRE #75 p.4; #76 p.19]

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90.09.01

Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: 2 Ts for a lovely T

Codanza Records Codanza One (10-CD Box) 2002 UK

August 27 through September 1, 1990
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club
London, UK

1.Epicritic (Pertaining to Cutaneous Sensitivity) [42:29] + [10:48]
2.Peduncle (The Support of an Inflorescence) [43:32]
3.Logozo Scampers (Tortoise) [42:06]
4.Owele Standing (Small Bird) [46:16]
5.Pineal (Black Dot) [41:34]
6.Proxumal (Nearest) [43:45] +[1:48]
7.Tellurian (Pertaining to Earth or its Inhabitants) [32:10]
8.Alumo [43:55]
9.Tayassus Pecari [41:03]
10.Peat [36:24]

Liner notes have no indication of session dates, and so no indication of which tracks were performed on which dates. Any help with this would be
appreciated. --RL

(All compositions, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (piano)
William Parker (bass)
Tony Oxley (percussion)

{Primary Source: RL, Codanza One; Session dates via The WIRE, Issue 78, August 1990, pg. 6, "Club Dates" column.}

90.09.16

September 16, 1990

cecil taylor workshop orchestra

ct p,voice
tobias netta tp
heinz erich goedecke tb
joachim gies ss,as
martin speicher ss,as,bars
ove volquartz ts,ss,bcl
uwe martin v
alexander frangenheim b
georg wolf b
h.lukas lindenmaier dr,voice
peeter uuskyla dr
kojo samuels perc,voice

goettingen, germany

set 1: 45:26 + 29:17 (cassette turning)
set 2: 45:17 + 11:05 ( -"- )
encore: 09:40
total around 141 min

Primary Source: audience recording on cdrs, hannes schneider

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Cecil Taylor Unit

October 8 through 13, 1990
Jazz Alley
Tokyo, Japan

"No tapes of Japan, but it was filmed [by] two individuals... but we never got copy" --Andre Martinez archive, correspondence 02.10.13

1.unknown titles []

(All compositions, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (piano)
William Parker (bass)
Andre Martinez (drums)
Tony Oxley (drums)

"...Tony Oxley was on this gig. This was the first time we met and the first time we all played together. This was a six night event. The first night was a trip
because Tony had a difficult time fitting into the trios program and began to rebel. The next day to keep the peace Cecil gave me and Tony instructions to
alternate playing one at a time. William and I went along for the first section but after that we said the hell with this and just continued playing straight through,
with the Maestros approval of course... The next four nights were really great, I have nice photos of all of us during this time. Tony was supposed to go on the
New England tour but because of back pains he did not make it. And [shortly] after the New England tour we returned to NY to do the famed Mystic Fire
video." -- Andre Martinez correspondence to RL, 02.05.27

{Primary Source: RL, info via Andre Martinez archive}

"...the New England tour, which was for The New England Foundation for the Arts... [was] a very prestigious concert series which lead to Cecil getting the McArthur award. The concerts were attended by students and music scholars. The concert series involved eight major concerts... The event was titled 'Strucotolite.' ...'Sructolite', then an intermission, and then 'Burning Poles'...William and myself, along with our driver Ricardo Solis, rented a van and drove to all venues with eguipment. This was an adventure and fun time for William and myself as well as serious work. William also learned to drive on this tour... Different travel arrangements were made for Cecil of course."

--Andre Martinez archive, correspondence 02.10.13; 02.10.26

90.10.18
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Strand Theater, Dorchester, MA


[Andre Martinez archive, correspondence to RL, 02.10.13]

90.10.19
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH [ibid]

90.10.20
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono, ME [ibid]

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90.10.24
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Top of the Senator, Toronto, Ontario, Canada / "While on New England tour we went to Toronto... and
did a couple of nights at this really nice club similar to the Blue Note-- lots of paintings of the great ones on the walls. Ricardo Solis was our driver."

[Andre Martinez archive, correspondence 02.10.24; corrections 02.11.02]

90.10.26
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Polish National Home, Hartford, CT [ibid]

90.10.28
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Langston Hughes Center for the Arts, Providence, RI / Concert: 1) Burning Poles, 2) Structolite [Andre
Martinez archive, correspondence]
90.10.29
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Langston Hughes Center for the Arts, Providence, RI / Workshop [correspondence Andre Martinez to RL archive]

90.10.31
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Residential Arts Center, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, MA [ibid]

90.11.02
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA [ibid]

90.11.03
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez, and Naima Wade (poet) / Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT [ibid]

90.11.08
Cecil Taylor Trio: Parker, Martinez / Afro -American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, PA / "This is where our car got towed,
story goes. ...they had a big buffet for us and some of Cecil's friends came to the show." [Andre Martinez archive, correspondence to RL02.11.02]

90.11.20

Cecil Taylor Unit:
TVE / Televisio Espanyola S.A. 1991

November 20, 1990
Aliança Poble Nou
Barcelona, Spain

1.unknown title [59:40]
2.credits [1:15]

(Composition, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (piano; vocals)
William Parker (bass)
Tony Oxley (drums)
Henry Martinez (drums; percussion)

"...The gig in Barcelona was a masterpiece and after the gig Cecil expressed his joy with us and we hung out all night till the next day when we departed for
home..." -- Andre Martine archive, correspondence to RL, 02.05.27

{Primary Source: RL, Videotape}

91.00.00

Cecil Taylor: Burning Poles

Mystic Fire Video 76240 (VHS) 1991

Date ?, 1991
National Video Industries
New York City

1.Poles [10:20]
2.The Silence of Trees [30:50]
3.For (1st Part) [7:10]

(All compositions, Cecil Taylor)

Cecil Taylor (piano)
William Parker (bass)
Tony Oxley (drums)
André Martinez (drums; percussion)

I'm looking for a tape or report on this event: "Friday, May 4th, 2001 at Johns Hopkins University, 2:30-5:30PM Presentation and discussion of the film "Burning Poles" (Mystic Fire Video, 1991; 50 min.), Donovan Room, Gilman 110. Screening of "Burning Poles" along with other performance footage of Cecil
Taylor, in both solo and group format, led by Fred Moten (School of Performance Studies, New York University)." Can anyone tell me about this? --RL

"...Burning Poles was the title of a piece he wrote for a student ensemble in Boston at NEC the year before, and in '91 he went on tour through new England and Canada with Parker and Henry (sic) * Martinez. I'm not sure how Oxley fits in to the footage-- whether he joined them there for part of the tour or not-- but I seem to recall Cecil saying that Oxley himself had some supervision or general oversight of the video projection."
--correspondence from Stefan Dill to RL

* "Cecil would sometimes use peoples' birth name if he knew it. My birth name is Henry and Cecil sometimes called me that... and I would respond 'ok, Percival' and that would end that." --Andre "Henry" Martinez archive, correspondence to RL, 02.05.27
"...Sheldon Roschlin and Maxine Harris [were] producers. Tony Oxley manipulated the whole experience-- the real session which was recorded the night before was not used. William, Taylor and I had just returned from the triumphant New England tour which was crucial to Taylor receiving the MacArthur award. Tony flew in from England to do gig. He and Sheldon were friends. For me personally this is the worst session we ever had."
--André Martinez archive correspondence to RL, 02.05.20

{Primary Source: RL, Mystic Fire 76240; info via S. Dill; venue and date info via André Martinez archive}