Cecil Taylor

Recordings/Performances

Sessionography (in progress at CUNY)
Discography (jazzdisco.org)
Discography (Lord Discography)–Wesleyan access only
Album covers

Video

“Jazz: The Experimenters” – 1965 at the Village Gate, NYC, introduced by Martin Williams and Ralph Ellison
- “Octagonal Skirt and Fancy Pants,” introduced by Martin Williams (1965)
à Paris: les grandes répétitions (rec. Nov. 1966, rel. 1968)
Newport w Sam Rivers (1969, Paris)
Michel Portal/Cecil Taylor doc (w Sam Rivers) (Nov 3, 1969, 2nd show, Paris)
Montreux (1974)
Chateauvallon Festival (1974)
1975 interview with Cecil Taylor (GBH) (Black churches; African rituals; If you do not have a community that is specifically organized to revere)
from Imagine the Sound (1981)
with Dancers (1983, Germany)
Italy (1983)
Munich, 1984
Orchestra of Two Continents (1984, Paris) (11:00, CT solo)
with Art Ensemble of Chicago (1984)
Cecil Taylor – Jazz Ost-West Festival 1984 (fragm.)
One Night with Blue Note (1985)
Der Pianist Cecil Taylor 1986 (14:30, with band; 20:50, at home; 23:20, interview)
Burning Poles (1991)
Interview (1991, tve, posted by Markus Breuss)
Trio (1995)
Quintet in Hamburg (1995, Germany)
NYU Master Class (2004)
All the Notes (2004)
Cecil Taylor Piano at Ornette Coleman Memorial (June 27, 2015)
Interviews
- Interview (Kyoto Prize, 2013)
- Interview (2017)

Solo piano

Carmen with Wings (1967)
Praxis (1968, Italy)
Cecil Taylor Unit Live at Antioch College, April 3, 1971 (with a group, unissued)
Spring of Two Blue-Js (1973, part 1)

Interviews, etc.

Cecil Taylor, Long a Rebel, Is Finding Steady Work (1991, Peter Watrous, NY Times)
being matter ignited . . . an interview with Cecil Taylor (1995, Funkhouser)
“Cecil Taylor: Interview by Jason Gross” (2001, Gross)
Cecil Taylor’s Education and Student Writings (2019, Allan Chase)

List of Bartok Compositions

Cecil Taylor, Pianist Who Defied Jazz Orthodoxy, Is Dead at 89 (NYT, 4/6/2018)

Jaki Byard, “Trendsition Zildijan” (1968)