Listening

Cecil Taylor, The Great Paris Concert (Black Lion) I don't know whether it's edited or not, but because this concert was recorded in 1966, the pieces are arranged in (for Cecil) bite-sized bits of a mere 10+ minutes. (His recorded stamina grew with the CD age, so you can now hear big old long improvs.) There are really beautiful lyrical bits here, and some great bowed bass from Alan Silva, and Andrew Cyrille, my favorite of all his drummers, on drums. (We saw Andrew C in a band with Mal Waldron when we went to New York--an amazing musician and a very kind man.) And Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, the guy who knew the nooks and crannies and mountains and canyons of Taylor's music better than anyone. My only complaint: murky sound, though for some reason you never have any problem hearing the piano.