01 February 9, 1980 I ....... 24:06 02 February 9, 1980 II ....... 20:43 03 February 9, 1980 III ....... 21:17
• PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED • DIGIPACK EDITION • FIRST VISIT archive offers previously unreleased recorgings of historic and musical importance
When, in this music, he succeeds in fusing the emotional (translated into its lyrical and dramatic qualities) passage of ritual with the complex architecture of his ensemble’s infrastructural procedures, we have a bridge into Cecil Taylor’s creative spirit, and far beyond. - Art Lange
PERSONNEL: Jimmy Lyons - (alto saxophone) Ramsey Ameen - (violin) Cecil Taylor - (piano) Alan Silva - (double bass & cello) Jerome Cooper - (drums & african balaphone) Sunny Murray - (drums) Recorded live February 9, 1980 at Fat Tuesday’s, New York |