The 70th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll is out now, highlighting several albums and artists repped from May 2021-April 2022 at Lydia Liebman Promotions. See the full list below! Rising Star … Read More
Cecil Taylor
NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD: MARCH 2022
New York City Jazz Record, March 2022 Review by Anna Steegmann – Adi Meyerson – I Want To Sing My Heart Out In Praise of Life – Page 17 Review … Read More
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert – The Free Jazz Collective
by Lee Rice Epstein, The Free Jazz Collective “Taylor is a fascinating composer, and listening to sets of performances within the same year really help listeners focus on how the … Read More
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor’s ‘The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert’ – Bebop Spoken Here
by Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here “The album’s full title – The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at The Town Hall NYC November 4, 1973 – marks the release of … Read More
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor’s ‘The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert’ – Buffalo News
by Jeff Simon, Buffalo News “It is a perfect demonstration of the astonishment of Taylor’s music at its best. Whirlwinds of thundering tone clusters and volcanic eruptions of splatter piano … Read More
REVIEW: Forty-Four Thoughts for Cecil Taylor – The Baffler
by Taylor Ho Bynum, The Baffler “..Taylor makes you question standard notions of time—not just the traditionally defined beats and tempos he had moved past by this recording, but the … Read More
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor’s ‘The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert At The Town Hall’ – Stereogum
by Phil Freeman, Stereogum “The concert was recorded — very well — by an engineer named Fred Seibert..it’s amazing stuff.” Read ‘The Month in Jazz – February 2022’ article here.
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor’s ‘The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert’ – The Guardian
by John Fordham, The Guardian “Cecil Taylor, the technically awesome, stylistically and temperamentally uncategorisable African American piano virtuoso, died in 2018. Four years later, much of a previously lost November … Read More
REVIEW: Cecil Taylor’s ‘The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert’ – JazzTimes
by Michael J. West, JazzTimes “..Spring of Two Blue-J’s, one of the great concert triumphs of free-jazz pianist Cecil Taylor’s career, is just the shorter second set from a two-set … Read More
REVIEW: An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later – The New York Times
by Alan Scherstuhl, The New York Times “Recorded at the Town Hall in New York on Nov. 4, 1973, the music gushes as if it were an uncapped fireplug. Previously … Read More