Garden (album)

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Garden
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Live album by Cecil Taylor
Released 1982
Recorded November 16, 1981
Genre Free jazz
Label Hat Hut
Cecil Taylor chronology
The Eighth
(1981)		Garden
(1982)		 Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
(1984)
Garden 2 CD cover
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Garden is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Basel Switzerland, November 16, 1981 and released on the Hat Hut label. The album features seven solo performances by Taylor on a Bösendorfer grand piano and was originally released as a double LP in 1982 and then rereleased as two single CDs entitled Garden Part 1 and Garden Part 2 in 1990. [3]

Cecil Taylor American pianist and poet

Cecil Percival Taylor was an American pianist and poet.

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

Bösendorfer is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, since 2008, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. Bösendorfer is unusual in that it produces 97- and 92-key models in addition to instruments with standard 88-key keyboards, and in its use of 3 strings-per-hammer model of construction.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states:

The first volume opened — as do all of his solo performances now — with vocal extemporization and poetry, and on into the slowly evolving gradually revealing performance itself. On the second disc there is nothing but meat. Taylor is in full heat, flailing, banging, slashing out chords and high register trills with studied abandon and a careful attention to detail. Here is where Taylor shows his secret persona: the dancer. Rooted in blues and barrelhouse in some spots and in gagaku and kabuki theater in others, while in still others the classical ballet, Taylor's playing style opens itself to embrace all of the above and spit them back out as part of his own musical iconography... This is a new music by Cecil Taylor, one that invites listeners in and gives them room to move around. This mature phase of Taylor's music is still blooming almost 20 years later, and continues to influence, inspire, and provoke. Garden, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 is the post-'70s Cecil solo date to have. [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.
  1. "Elell" - 26:40
  2. "Garden II" - 24:40
  3. "Garden I + Stepping On Stars" - 20:10
  4. "Introduction To Z" - 8:15
  5. "Driver Says" - 3:20
  6. "Pemmican" - 6:20
  7. "Points" - 2:30
  • Recorded at Basel Switzerland, November 16, 1981

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 190. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Cecil Taylor Sessionography accessed 16 July 2009
  4. ↑ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed 16 July 2009
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