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Cecil Taylor|Silent Tongues

Silent Tongues

Cecil Taylor

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This is a classic Cecil Taylor solo concert, performed at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Taylor plays his five-movement work "Silent Tongues," along with a couple of brief encores. To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be.

© Scott Yanow /TiVo

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1
Abyss (First Movement)/Petals & Filaments (Second Movement)/Jitney (Third Movement)
00:18:24

Cecil Taylor, MainArtist - Taylor, Writer

2
Crossing (Fourth Movement) Part One
00:18:40

Cecil Taylor, MainArtist - Taylor, Writer

3
After All (Fifth Movement)
00:09:52

Cecil Taylor, MainArtist - Taylor, Writer

4
Jitney No. 2
00:04:11

Cecil Taylor, MainArtist - Taylor, Writer

5
After All No. 2
00:02:50

Cecil Taylor, MainArtist - Taylor, Writer

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This is a classic Cecil Taylor solo concert, performed at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Taylor plays his five-movement work "Silent Tongues," along with a couple of brief encores. To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be.

© Scott Yanow /TiVo

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