Luyah! The CECIL TAYLOR albums poll!

I bought the Real Gone set myself just last month - well worth it, even though I already owned a few of the albums. (Nice that those two half-Cecil albums are included)

Thanks for all the advice. Will investigate the Real Gone / Nat Hentoff Sessions.

winged serpent has a lot of chunky mass, fat horns

is this comment pro or anti or merely descriptive

i suppose theoretically someone could feel a need for skinny horns but

looking ahead is a decent little album

Tremendous and long sustained energy on Akisakila. I only wish the 40 min sets were broken up into shorter tracks.

I try listening to a new Cecil Taylor record every few years to see if I "get it" yet. I've been trying with Indent, also recorded in 1973, but I can't parse it. It's not unpleasant. Unit Structures and 3 Phasis I appreciated without having to make such an effort!

I’m that way w a lot of artists and this probably not gonna help you or w/e but a big thing for his work clicking with me was the degree I started recognizing his playing as percussive.

Too late, but I would have voted for Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come.

percussive and with complex tone clusters, which reached a peak with 2 Ts For a Lovely T