John Coltrane (Cecil Taylor) - Coltrane Time (1958) (eac-log-cover)

John Coltrane (Cecil Taylor) - Coltrane Time (1958)

jazz | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 205MB

Blue Note

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This is a most unusual CD due to the inclusion of Cecil Taylor on piano. Although Taylor and John Coltrane got along well, trumpeter Kenny Dorham (who is also on this quintet date) hated the avant-garde pianist's playing and was clearly bothered by Taylor's dissonant comping behind his solos. With bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Louis Hayes doing their best to ignore the discord, the group manages to perform two blues and two standards with Dorham playing strictly bop, Taylor coming up with fairly free abstractions and Coltrane sounding somewhere in between. The results are unintentionally fascinating.
Wikipedia:
Stereo Drive is a 1958 album by jazz musician Cecil Taylor featuring John Coltrane. The same session was released later as Hard Driving Jazz and Coltrane Time. It is the only known recording featuring both Coltrane and Taylor. The album has subsequently been rereleased under Coltrane's name many times, including on Blue Note Records.
Taylor has described how the record company determined the choice of musicians on the session: "I said 'Coltrane okay, but I want to use all the musicians that I want.' I wanted to use Ted Curson, who's a much more contemporary trumpet player than the trumpet player I ended up with, Kenny Dorham."

Tracks:
-1. "Shifting Down" — 10:37
-2. "Just Friends" — 6:13
-3. "Like Someone in Love" — 8:07
-4. "Double Clutching" — 8:18

Personnel:
* John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
* Kenny Dorham — trumpet
* Cecil Taylor — piano
* Chuck Israels — bass
* Louis Hayes — drums
Recorded October 13, 1958 in New York City.

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Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! (1966) (RVG) (eac-flac-cover)

Cecil Taylor - Conquistador! (1966) (RVG)

jazz | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 370MB

BN RVG | rar +5% recovery

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For the second of Cecil Taylor's two Blue Note albums (following Unit Structures), the innovative pianist utilized a sextet comprised of trumpeter Bill Dixon, altoist Jimmy Lyons, both Henry Grimes and Alan Silva on basses and drummer Andrew Cyrille. During the two lengthy pieces, Lyons' passionate solos contrast with Dixon's quieter ruminations while the music in general is unremittingly intense. Both of the Taylor Blue Notes are quite historic and near-classics but, despite this important documentation, Cecil Taylor (other than a pair of Paris concerts) would not appear on records again until 1973.

Tracks
1. Conquistador
2. With (Exit)
3. With (Exit)(Alt. take)

Personnel
Bill Dixon, trumpet
Jimmy Lyons, alto sax
Cecil Taylor, piano
Henry Grimes, bass
Alan Silva, bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums

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