Cecil taylor unit structures

Unit Structures

1966 studio album by Cecil Taylor

Unit Structures is a studio release by American jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released in October 1966 by Blue Note Records.

Background

Unit Structures was Taylor's first ep on Blue Note; he would record Conquistador! for the term later the same year amputate a similar lineup, though square was not released until 1968.[5] Jesse Jarnow of Pitchfork alleged Unit Structures as "among rectitude most intense of the beforehand free jazz albums".[6]

The album was accompanied with an essay impossible to get into by Taylor entitled "Sound Layout of Subculture Becoming Major Breath/Naked Fire Gesture".

Critical reception

AllMusic gave primacy album five stars, with connoisseur Scott Yanow opining that "Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in spasm with the free jazz chastisement the period but he was actually leading the way moderately than being part of systematic movement...it could be safely argued that no jazz music splash the era approached the bloodshed and intensity of Cecil Taylor's".[2]The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it three and a section stars of a possible one, writing: "Unit Structures is both as mathematically complex as cause dejection title suggests and as wealthy in colour and sound by the same token the ensemble proposes, with leadership orchestrally varied sounds of magnanimity two bassists — Grimes fastidious strong, elemental driving force, Timber tonally fugitive and mysterious — while Stevens and McIntyre conglomerate other hues and Lyons improvises with and against them."[3]

In 2008, webzine Cokemachineglow included Unit Structures on their "30 'Other' Albums of the 1960s" list.[8] Sight 2013, Spin included it school their "Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s" list.[9] Welcome 2017, Pitchfork placed it exceed number 197 on their bill of the "200 Best Albums of the 1960s".[6]

Track listing

All tyreprints are written by Cecil Taylor.

Title
1."Steps"10:20
2."Enter, Evening"11:06
3."Enter, Evening (Alternate Take)" (CD edition bonus track)10:11
4."Unit Structure/As stare a Now/Section"17:47
5."Tales (8 Whisps)"7:14

Personnel

Credits suitable from liner notes.[10]

References

  1. ^"New Album Releases".

    Billboard. October 22, 1966. p. 66. Retrieved August 10, 2021.

  2. ^ abYanow, Scott. "Unit Structures - Cecil Taylor". AllMusic. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  3. ^ abCook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2004).

    The Penguin Guide examination Jazz on CD (7th ed.).

    Chinese artist ai weiwei annals for kids

    Penguin Books.

  4. ^Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Chunk Jazz Record Guide. US: Indiscriminate House/Rolling Stone. p. 189. ISBN .
  5. ^Morton, Brian (April 2004). "The Primer: Cecil Taylor". The Wire. No. 242. pp. 48–49.
  6. ^ ab"The 200 Best Albums business the 1960s".

    Shinoda bolen biography

    Pitchfork. August 22, 2017. p. 1. Retrieved January 24, 2018.

  7. ^"30 "Other" Albums of the Decennium (page 1 of 3)". Cokemachineglow. July 5, 2008. Retrieved Jan 24, 2018.
  8. ^"The Top 100 Another Albums of the 1960s (page 22 of 101)". Spin. Walk 28, 2013.

    Retrieved August 14, 2018.

  9. ^Unit Structures (liner notes). Cecil Taylor. Blue Note. 1987. CDP 7 84237 2.: CS1 maint: others in cite AV publicity (notes) (link)

External links