*** Cecil Taylor ***

[Pim]

10 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

A little bird tells me that Resonance are doing a Cecil/INA set, which I understand to be the 1969 Fondation Maeght recordings. I have the Shandar LPs and am wondering if there is additional, unreleased music from that concert (or if there was another concert than the 29 July '69 "Second Act of A" performance)... there is, of course, circulating material from other gigs by the same quartet.

That sounds promising!

[romualdo]

3 hours ago, mhatta said:

Great news! Since Resonance reissued Albert Ayler's Foundation Maeght recording a few years ago, they should have access to Cecil Taylor's tapes too. Andrew Cyrille is in top form here, so I hope they release it while he's still alive.

The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor aka Second Act of A is my favorite Cecil Taylor. Recordings from his quartet around that time, as far as I know, are:

1969/2/8 Grinnell College, IA
1969/7/29 Foundation Maeght, France aka “Second Act of A”
1969/11/4 Copenhagen, Denmark (w/ color video!)
1969/11/5 Stockholm, Sweden
1969/11/6 Berlin, Germany
1969/11/9 Rotterdam, Netherlands aka “Cecil Taylor Quartet In Europe”
1969/11/10 Stuttgart, Germany aka “Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington”

Are there any others?

 

add 1969/11/2 London, UK - Ronnie Scott's - BBC TV broadcast - I have a 7 minute recording of "Fragments of a Dedication....."

[colinmce]

Awesome news, long overdue. Some extra music would be nice, but I’d be more than happy to just finally have the original recordings on CD. 

Now if we could just get someone to do a wide physical release of the ‘73 Town Hall concert, I’ll never not be annoyed by how that was handled. 

[clifford_thornton]

5 hours ago, colinmce said:

 

Now if we could just get someone to do a wide physical release of the ‘73 Town Hall concert, I’ll never not be annoyed by how that was handled. 

Replace “annoyed” with “frankly pissed” and I am with you. Total BS.

[felser]

I'd certainly be in for a CD release of the '73 concert.  I have the grey market Jazz Door CD's of the '69 concert, so will wait to see how much this release is an improvement, and what the price point is.  But this is good news, no matter what.

Edited 16 hours ago by felser

[B. Clugston]

On 9/22/2025 at 11:45 AM, clifford_thornton said:

A little bird tells me that Resonance are doing a Cecil/INA set, which I understand to be the 1969 Fondation Maeght recordings. I have the Shandar LPs and am wondering if there is additional, unreleased music from that concert (or if there was another concert than the 29 July '69 "Second Act of A" performance)... there is, of course, circulating material from other gigs by the same quartet.

The Sam Rivers sessionography references an audience recording of an afternoon performance from the day before. No idea if it was professionally recorded. Great news that Second Act of A may be getting reissued--the interplay between Taylor and Cyrille on that set is stunning.