Cecil Taylor

Recordings/Performances

• Sessionography
• 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)
• 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)