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Cecil Taylor Unit — Live at Fat Tuesdays, February 9, 1980 (First Visit Archive)

Over the weekend of Feb. 8-9th, 1980, the Cecil Taylor Unit rolled into Fat Tuesday’s, a jazz club at 190 Third Avenue in Manhattan. Four sets were recorded over the weekend by Swiss producer Werner X. Uehlinger, probably some four hours of music. The next year, one of these sets was released by Uehlinger’s label HatHut. And now, over 40 years later, another set has been released as Live At Fat Tuesdays, February 9, 1980, the first record on Uehlinger’s new label First Visit Archive.

This release consists of one long, untitled composition by Cecil Taylor, split arbitrarily into three tracks, and is a little over an hour of intense music: at turns it threatens to boil over, could seem at home on a classical record, or has the shouts and claps of a revival meeting. It’s not the most accessible of Taylor’s records, but then his most interesting ones never are.

The set opens with Taylor on piano, gently exploring while the percussion duo of Sunny Murray and Jerome Cooper provide a sparse backing. Soon, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons enters and he and Taylor go back and forth for a bit. As Taylor’s playing grows faster and more percussive, Lyons starts working on variations of the same phrase, adding little flourishes here and there. As the pace continues to build, Taylor’s energy rises and about four minutes in, he launches into his first solo of the set. You can hear him exploring ideas, sometimes going back to a passage or two between bursts. This isn’t just free jazz, but something with a larger structure in mind. Taylor’s piano occasionally bursts into fragments of sound, his energetic playing seeming to swirl around the other players and pushing him to the forefront. After a little bit, violinist Ramsey Ameen enters, sounding like he just walked in off an Albert Ayler record, his tone thin and shrill. He adds a nice dissonant streak to Taylor’s music, a counter to the pumping, rhythmic piano.

Not far into the second part, Taylor changes tack: his playing slows down and settles into a slow, almost classical style. He’s not exactly playing it straight — there’s little signature flourishes between phrases here—  but he’s almost showing that he can play like Keith Jarrett if he wanted to. As his playing once again picks up and grows fragmented, Lyons reenters and trades licks. Together they build a flurry of notes, the rhythm section trailing just behind.

Later in the evening, another wrinkle emerges: someone starts to vocalize overtop of the music, almost speaking in tongues, as opposed to the poetry Taylor sometimes mixed into his music. As the tempo slows down, there’s layers of voices and hand claps and percussion, taking the music into another dimension. And as the set winds down, the voices grow stronger and more rapid, little bursts that almost mimic Taylor and Lyons playing. And finally, Taylor slows things down almost all the way, closing an intense hour of music with some slow, melodic playing.

Throughout Live at Fat Tuedsays Taylor’s playing isn’t just a mere accompaniment to his band. He never just guides things along with a well-placed chord here or there. His forceful, driving playing could be a band all in itself and acts almost like a bed for the rest of the musicians to work on top of. He occasionally guides them with a burst of playing or pushes someone forward with a low rumble from his left hand. But one could strip away everything else to just focus on him and they’d still have an engaging record.

With so many moving parts here, like the interplay between Taylor and the string section of Ameen and Alan Silva (bass, cello), or the way Lyons seems to effortlessly glide between Taylor’s flurry of notes, it can be easy to get overwhelmed on first listen. Thankfully, one can go back and relisten: an ability the audience this night at Fat Tuesday’s wasn’t able to have.

To think that this short-lived lineup was able to play with this kind of telekinesis and energy on any of these nights is almost breathtaking and makes one wish the two unreleased sets were also available to listen to. But until then, this is an essential and exciting addition to Taylor’s discography.

Roz Milner

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Alto Saxophone – Jimmy Lyons Baritone Saxophone – Chris Woods Bass – Charlie Haden Bass Trombone – Jack Jeffers Clarinet – Perry Robinson Drums – Paul Motian Electric Guitar – John McLaughlin French Horn – Sharon Freeman Piano – Carla Bley Tenor Saxophone – Gato Barbieri Trombone – Roswell Rudd Trumpet – Michael Mantler Tuba – John Buckingham Voice – Linda Ronstadt Voice – Charlie Haden

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Cecil Taylor Unit - Copenhagen 1969

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"Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come": Cecil Taylor's Avant-Garde Odyssey

Introduction: In avant-garde jazz, certain albums emerge as sacred artifacts, encapsulating the spirit of experimentation and the unbridled creativity of their creators. One such monumental work is “Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come,” a live album by the Cecil Taylor Unit recorded at Café Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 23, 1962. Lasting almost two hours, this recording is not…

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Nuba 1

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Cecil Taylor Unit - Copenhagen (1969)

Cecil Taylor - piano

Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone

Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone, flute

Andrew Cyrille - drums

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jimmy lyons / andrew cyrille -- lorry

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Saxophone History Podcast Episodes 7-9 Paul Desmond

I’ve just released the third and final episode on Paul Desmond for the Saxophone history podcast and I think the three episodes are quite an interesting story. Just like with the other saxophonists I’ve looked at, Desmond had a much more colourful life than the few bits and anecdotes that we all know of. I hope you’ll give these episodes a listen and then I hope you’ll listen to some of his…

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JUNO TEMPLE on Jimmy Kimmel

November 14/23 in advance of Fargo premiering next week. She looks so happy and great! She's delightful! So wonderful to see her interviewed again! (Just like Keeley Jones, she's cute as a button!)

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Will Jenna Not Return to Season 15?!

Jenna Lyons was absent from BravoCon and it might have been because she’s booked and busy.

But is she too busy for RHONY?

She was at a fashion event with Jessel Taank during BravoCon, but Jessel eventually showed up in Las Vegas while Jenna was missing in action.

And after the interviews she has been doing since RHONY wrapped, I’m worried.

It would be just my luck if my favourite housewife from the reboot didn’t return for the next season.

I would be absolutely gutted if she left after only one season.

But the women were ganging up on her about the silliest of things. And at the reunion Ubah Hassan made it seem like Jenna had no real friends on the show.

She said that none of the women had wanted her to join the show.

It therefore worries me that this wasn’t a very pleasant experience for her.

When she was at her most vulnerable after fixing her teeth, Erin Lichy threw her under the bus and made it seem like she thought she was better than the rest of the group.

When she was on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon, she tried to avoid the question about her returning to RHONY, and when he pressed, she answered:

"I don't have an answer. I genuinely don't know."

The audience was begging her to do it, and Jimmy agreed. He said that the fans loved her.

She’s undoubtedly one of the better additions to the reboot.

She admitted that doing the show was a tough experience, and for someone who appears both very guarded and vulnerable, it must be exhausting to expose yourself.

However, she did a great job telling us her life story even if the other housewives didn’t value it very much.

Sadly, it looks like Jenna is going to be one of those one and done housewives, but what a one hit wonder she will end up being.

Although I think we’ve never seen a housewife of her calibre before, I’m greatly thankful that she had the guts to join the RHONY reboot at all.

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Eddie Money 1977 Columbia ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Two Tickets to Paradise 02. You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me 03. Wanna Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star 04. Save a Little Room in Your Heart for Me 05. So Good to Be in Love Again 06. Baby Hold On 07. Don’t Worry 08. Jealousys 09. Got to Get Another Girl 10. Gamblin’ Man —————————————————

Jimmy Lyon

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Eddie Money

Randy Nichols

Gene Pardue

Alan Pasqua

Bob Popwell

Lonnie Turner

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Straight Acting

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Song of the Day: Breathing Underwater - Antoine Chambe (ft. Jimmy Burney)

Song of the Day: Breathing Underwater - @AntoineChambe (ft. Jimmy Burney)

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