Silent Tongues

by Cecil Taylor

Overview

This is a classic Cecil Taylor solo concert, performed at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Taylor plays his five-movement work "Silent Tongues," along with a couple of brief encores. To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	02/15/2019
Label:	Org / Org Music
UPC:	0711574837410
Rank:	43334

Tracks

1. Abyss (First Movement)/Petals & Filaments (Second Movement)/Jitney (Third Movement)
2. Crossing, Pt. 1
3. Crossing, Pt. 2
4. After All
5. Jitney
6. After All

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Cecil Taylor   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Stephan Sulke   Engineer
Michael Cuscuna   Producer
Alan Bates   Producer
Cecil Taylor   Composer
Benno Friedman   Art Direction
Michael Wilderman   Photography