| Silent Tongues | ||||
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| Released | 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
| Venue | Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland | |||
| Genre | Free jazz | |||
| Length | 52:03 | |||
| Label | Freedom | |||
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Silent Tongues is a live album by Cecil Taylor on solo piano recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974. It features Taylor's five-movement work "Silent Tongues", along with two encores.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Since I recommend Taylor's appearances so extravagantly, it's only fair to note that there is a natural theater to his live performance that I miss on record—observing his concentration greatly increases my own. Especially solo, he's too abstract for a rock and roller to follow." [2]
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be." [1]
Silent Tongues was DownBeat 's album of the year for 1975. [4]
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