Artist: Cecil Taylor
Album: Conquistador!
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
Label: Blue Note / Toshiba-EMI
Released: 1966/1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Conquistador (Taylor) - 17:55
- With (Exit) (Taylor) - 19:17
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- Personnel:
- Bill Dixon - trumpet
- Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
- Cecil Taylor - piano
- Henry Grimes, Alan Silva - bass
- Andrew Cyrille - drums
For the second of Cecil Taylor's two Blue Note albums (following Unit Structures), the innovative pianist utilized a sextet comprised of trumpeter Bill Dixon, altoist Jimmy Lyons, both Henry Grimes and Alan Silva on basses and drummer Andrew Cyrille. During the two lengthy pieces, Lyons' passionate solos contrast with Dixon's quieter ruminations while the music in general is unremittingly intense. Both of the Taylor Blue Notes are quite historic and near-classics but, despite this important documentation, Cecil Taylor (other than a pair of Paris concerts) would not appear on records again until 1973.
Review by Scott Yanow