Cecil Taylor discography

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Discography for jazz pianist Cecil Taylor.

Discography

As leader

Recording dateTitleLabelYear releasedAdditional information
1956-09 Jazz Advance Transition 1957Debut album
1957-07 At Newport Verve 1958Live 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 1959With John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes (and other editions with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles).
1959-04 Love for Sale United Artists1959
1960-10 The World of Cecil Taylor Candid 1960
1960-10 Air Candid1990
1961-01 New York City R&B Barnaby 1972with Buell Neidlinger
1961-01 Cell Walk for Celeste Candid1988
1961-01 Jumpin' Punkins Candid1987
1962-10The Early Unit 1962Ingo (Bootleg) ?Live at Stockholm
1962-11 Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
also released as Complete Live At The Cafe Montmartre
Revenant 1963Live at Copenhagen
1966-05 Unit Structures Blue Note1966
1966-10 Conquistador! Blue Note1968
1966-10, 1969-11Live in StuttgartBMM (Bootleg) ?[2CDR] Live in Stuttgart
1966-11 Student Studies
also released as The Great Paris Concert
BYG/Black Lion 1973Live
1967-07Rotterdam 1967Headless Hawk (Bootleg) ?[CDR] Live at Rotterdam
1968-07 Praxis Praxis1982[2LP] Live
1968-10 Respiration Fundacja Słuchaj!2022Live at Warsaw
1969-07 The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
Prestige 1977Live
1969-11In EuropeJazz Connoisseur (Bootleg) ?Live
1971-07Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971FreeFactory2009Live in NYC. bonus tracks rec. 1965
1973-03 Indent Unit Core1973Live
1973-05 Akisakila Trio1973Live
1973-05 Solo Trio1973Live
1973-11 Spring of Two Blue J's Unit Core1974Live in NYC. vinyl release was 2000 copies.
1973-11 The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert Oblivion 2022Live in NYC
1974-07 Silent Tongues Freedom1975Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
1976-06 Dark to Themselves Enja 1977Live in Ljubljana
1976-08 Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within) Enja1978Live in Langau
1977-04EmbracedPablo Live1978[2LP] Live with Mary Lou Williams
1978-04 Cecil Taylor Unit New World1978
1978-04 3 Phasis New World1978
1978-06 Live in the Black Forest MPS1978Live in Black Forest
1978-06 One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye Hat Hut 1980Live in Stuttgart
1979-12 Historic Concerts Soul Note1984Live with Max Roach at Columbia University
1980-02 It Is in the Brewing Luminous Hat Hut1981Live
1980-09 Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! MPS1981Live
1981-11 The Eighth Hat Hut1986Live
1981-11 Garden Hat Hut1982Live
1984-10 Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Soul Note1985
1984-10 Music from Two Continents (Live at Jazz Jamboree '84) Fundacja Słuchaj!2021Live
1986-02 Iwontunwonsi Sound Hills1995Live
1986-02 Amewa Sound Hills1995Live
1986-04 For Olim Soul Note1987Live
1986-04 Olu Iwa Soul Note1987Live
1987-11 Live in Bologna Leo1987Live in Bologna
1987-11 Live in Vienna Leo1988Live in Vienna
1987-11 Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil Leo1988Live
1987-11 Chinampas Leo1987
1988-06 Riobec FMP 1989Live with Günter Sommer
1988-06 In East Berlin FMP1989[2CD] Live
1988-06 Regalia FMP1989Live with Paul Lovens
1988-06 The Hearth FMP1989Live with Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker
1988-07 Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) FMP1989Live in Berlin
1988-07 Remembrance FMP1989Live with Louis Moholo
1988-07 Pleistozaen Mit Wasser FMP1989Live with Derek Bailey
1988-07 Spots, Circles, and Fantasy FMP1989Live with Han Bennink
1988-07 Legba Crossing FMP1989Live
1988-07 Erzulie Maketh Scent FMP1989Live
1988-07 Leaf Palm Hand FMP1989Live with Tony Oxley
1989-06 In Florescence A&M1990
1989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) Solo FMP1990Live
1989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio FMP1990Live
1989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) Corona FMP1991Live
1990-06 Celebrated Blazons FMP1993Live
1990-08,
1990-09
2 Ts for a Lovely T Codanza Records2002[10CD Limited Edition] Live in London
1990-09 Göttingen Fundacja Słuchaj!2021[2CD] Live
1990-09 Double Holy House FMP1993Live
1990-09 Nailed FMP2000Live
1990-09 Melancholy FMP1999Live with Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs
1990-07 CT: The Dance Project FMP2008Live with William Parker and Masashi Harada
1991-03 The Tree of Life FMP1998Live piano solo
1992-07 Duets 1992 Triple Point Records2019with Bill Dixon
1993-04 Always a Pleasure FMP1996Live
1996-11 Corona FMP2018Live with Sunny Murray
1996-11 Almeda FMP2004Live as nonet
1996-11 The Light of Corona FMP2003Live
1998-03 Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 Cadence Jazz 1998Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall
1998-03 Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 Cadence Jazz1998Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall
1998-08 Momentum Space Verve 1999with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones
1998-10 Lifting the Bandstand Fundacja Słuchaj!2021Live
1999-02 Algonquin Bridge 2004Live. Great Performances from the Library of Congress – Vol. 18; with Mat Maneri.
1999-05 Poschiavo Black Sun2018Live solo piano at the Uncool Festival, Poschiavo, Switzerland
1999-11 Incarnation FMP2004Live
2000-02 All the Notes Cadence2004Live
2000-05 At Angelica 2000 Bologna I Dischi Di Angelica2020[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 Victo2001Live at the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada)
2000-09 The Willisau Concert Intakt 2002Live 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 2003Live 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 Discus2020Live with Tony Oxley
2002-05 Taylor/Dixon/Oxley Les Disques Victo2002Live at the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley
2003-10 The Last Dance Cadence Jazz 2009Live with Dominic Duval
2008-02 Conversations with Tony Oxley Jazzwerkstatt2018Live with Tony Oxley
2008-11 Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs Triple Point Records2009Live with Tony Oxley
2011-11 Birdland, Neuburg 2011 Fundacja Słuchaj!2020Live with Tony Oxley

Compilations

As sideman

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