Jazz / Avant-Garde; Hard Bop
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.
---Scott Yanow, allmusic
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Kenny Dorham - trumpet
Cecil Taylor - piano
Chuck Israels - bass
Louis Hayes - drums |
