Recording date | Title | Label | Year released | Additional information |
---|---|---|---|---|
1956-09 | Jazz Advance | Transition | 1957 | Debut album |
1957-07 | At Newport | Verve | 1958 | Live with the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory |
1958-06 | Looking Ahead! | Contemporary | 1959 | |
1958-10 | Hard Driving Jazz also released as Coltrane Time and Stereo Drive | United Artists/Blue Note | 1959 | With John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes (and other editions with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles). |
1959-04 | Love for Sale | United Artists | 1959 | |
1960-10 | The World of Cecil Taylor | Candid | 1960 | |
1960-10 | Air | Candid | 1990 | |
1961-01 | New York City R&B | Barnaby | 1972 | with Buell Neidlinger |
1961-01 | Cell Walk for Celeste | Candid | 1988 | |
1961-01 | Jumpin' Punkins | Candid | 1987 | |
1962-10 | The Early Unit 1962 | Ingo (Bootleg) | ? | Live at Stockholm |
1962-11 | Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come also released as Complete Live At The Cafe Montmartre | Revenant | 1963 | Live at Copenhagen |
1966-05 | Unit Structures | Blue Note | 1966 | |
1966-10 | Conquistador! | Blue Note | 1968 | |
1966-10, 1969-11 | Live in Stuttgart | BMM (Bootleg) | ? | [2CDR] Live in Stuttgart |
1966-11 | Student Studies also released as The Great Paris Concert | BYG/Black Lion | 1973 | Live |
1967-07 | Rotterdam 1967 | Headless Hawk (Bootleg) | ? | [CDR] Live at Rotterdam |
1968-07 | Praxis | Praxis | 1982 | [2LP] Live |
1968-10 | Respiration | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2022 | Live at Warsaw |
1969-07 | The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght | Prestige | 1977 | Live |
1969-11 | In Europe | Jazz Connoisseur (Bootleg) | ? | Live |
1971-07 | Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 | FreeFactory | 2009 | Live in NYC. bonus tracks rec. 1965 |
1973-03 | Indent | Unit Core | 1973 | Live |
1973-05 | Akisakila | Trio | 1973 | Live |
1973-05 | Solo | Trio | 1973 | Live |
1973-11 | Spring of Two Blue J's | Unit Core | 1974 | Live in NYC. vinyl release was 2000 copies. |
1973-11 | The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert | Oblivion | 2022 | Live in NYC |
1974-07 | Silent Tongues | Freedom | 1975 | Live at Montreux Jazz Festival |
1976-06 | Dark to Themselves | Enja | 1977 | Live in Ljubljana |
1976-08 | Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within) | Enja | 1978 | Live in Langau |
1977-04 | Embraced | Pablo Live | 1978 | [2LP] Live with Mary Lou Williams |
1978-04 | Cecil Taylor Unit | New World | 1978 | |
1978-04 | 3 Phasis | New World | 1978 | |
1978-06 | Live in the Black Forest | MPS | 1978 | Live in Black Forest |
1978-06 | One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye | Hat Hut | 1980 | Live in Stuttgart |
1979-12 | Historic Concerts | Soul Note | 1984 | Live with Max Roach at Columbia University |
1980-02 | It Is in the Brewing Luminous | Hat Hut | 1981 | Live |
1980-09 | Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! | MPS | 1981 | Live |
1981-11 | The Eighth | Hat Hut | 1986 | Live |
1981-11 | Garden | Hat Hut | 1982 | Live |
1984-10 | Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) | Soul Note | 1985 | |
1984-10 | Music from Two Continents (Live at Jazz Jamboree '84) | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | Live |
1986-02 | Iwontunwonsi | Sound Hills | 1995 | Live |
1986-02 | Amewa | Sound Hills | 1995 | Live |
1986-04 | For Olim | Soul Note | 1987 | Live |
1986-04 | Olu Iwa | Soul Note | 1987 | Live |
1987-11 | Live in Bologna | Leo | 1987 | Live in Bologna |
1987-11 | Live in Vienna | Leo | 1988 | Live in Vienna |
1987-11 | Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil | Leo | 1988 | Live |
1987-11 | Chinampas | Leo | 1987 | |
1988-06 | Riobec | FMP | 1989 | Live with Günter Sommer |
1988-06 | In East Berlin | FMP | 1989 | [2CD] Live |
1988-06 | Regalia | FMP | 1989 | Live with Paul Lovens |
1988-06 | The Hearth | FMP | 1989 | Live with Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker |
1988-07 | Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) | FMP | 1989 | Live in Berlin |
1988-07 | Remembrance | FMP | 1989 | Live with Louis Moholo |
1988-07 | Pleistozaen Mit Wasser | FMP | 1989 | Live with Derek Bailey |
1988-07 | Spots, Circles, and Fantasy | FMP | 1989 | Live with Han Bennink |
1988-07 | Legba Crossing | FMP | 1989 | Live |
1988-07 | Erzulie Maketh Scent | FMP | 1989 | Live |
1988-07 | Leaf Palm Hand | FMP | 1989 | Live with Tony Oxley |
1989-06 | In Florescence | A&M | 1990 | |
1989-11 | Looking (Berlin Version) Solo | FMP | 1990 | Live |
1989-11 | Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio | FMP | 1990 | Live |
1989-11 | Looking (Berlin Version) Corona | FMP | 1991 | Live |
1990-06 | Celebrated Blazons | FMP | 1993 | Live |
1990-08, 1990-09 | 2 Ts for a Lovely T | Codanza Records | 2002 | [10CD Limited Edition] Live in London |
1990-09 | Göttingen | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | [2CD] Live |
1990-09 | Double Holy House | FMP | 1993 | Live |
1990-09 | Nailed | FMP | 2000 | Live |
1990-09 | Melancholy | FMP | 1999 | Live with Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs |
1990-07 | CT: The Dance Project | FMP | 2008 | Live with William Parker and Masashi Harada |
1991-03 | The Tree of Life | FMP | 1998 | Live piano solo |
1992-07 | Duets 1992 | Triple Point Records | 2019 | with Bill Dixon |
1993-04 | Always a Pleasure | FMP | 1996 | Live |
1996-11 | Corona | FMP | 2018 | Live with Sunny Murray |
1996-11 | Almeda | FMP | 2004 | Live as nonet |
1996-11 | The Light of Corona | FMP | 2003 | Live |
1998-03 | Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 | Cadence Jazz | 1998 | Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
1998-03 | Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 | Cadence Jazz | 1998 | Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
1998-08 | Momentum Space | Verve | 1999 | with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones |
1998-10 | Lifting the Bandstand | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | Live |
1999-02 | Algonquin | Bridge | 2004 | Live. Great Performances from the Library of Congress – Vol. 18; with Mat Maneri. |
1999-05 | Poschiavo | Black Sun | 2018 | Live solo piano at the Uncool Festival, Poschiavo, Switzerland |
1999-11 | Incarnation | FMP | 2004 | Live |
2000-02 | All the Notes | Cadence | 2004 | Live |
2000-05 | At Angelica 2000 Bologna | I Dischi Di Angelica | 2020 | [2CD] Live recorded during Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, 10th Edition, May 5–13 and July 5–6, 2000, Bologna, Italy |
2000-05 | Complicité | Les Disques Victo | 2001 | Live at the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada) |
2000-09 | The Willisau Concert | Intakt | 2002 | Live solo piano at the Jazzfestival Willisau |
2000-09 | The Owner of the River Bank also released as Live In Ruvo Di Puglia 2000 (2021) | Enja | 2003 | Live with the Italian Instabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia (South Italy) |
2002-05 | Being Astral and All Registers – Power of Two | Discus | 2020 | Live with Tony Oxley |
2002-05 | Taylor/Dixon/Oxley | Les Disques Victo | 2002 | Live at the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley |
2003-10 | The Last Dance | Cadence Jazz | 2009 | Live with Dominic Duval |
2008-02 | Conversations with Tony Oxley | Jazzwerkstatt | 2018 | Live with Tony Oxley |
2008-11 | Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs | Triple Point Records | 2009 | Live with Tony Oxley |
2011-11 | Birdland, Neuburg 2011 | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2020 | Live with Tony Oxley |
Compilations
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