nail75Sind das ausschließlich Trios?
Ja – also ausschliesslich ein Trio: Taylor/Parker/Oxley, das „Feel Trio“ eben!
Hier gibt’s eine Besprechung aus dem Guardian von John Fordham (20. September 2002):
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: 2 Ts For A Lovely T
(Codanza One – limited edition)
* * * * *John Fordham
The Guardian, Friday 20 September 2002This is where Cecil Taylor wound up over 30 years after the At Newport recording. He is playing here with a British virtuoso free-improviser and new-music percussionist with a rich jazz history (Tony Oxley), and the stormily formidable American bassist William Parker in an uncompromising spontaneous trio. These ten discs were recorded over a week of shows in London in 1990, and they are neither for the faint-hearted, or the faintly-resourced: this classy collector’s piece will set you back £115, so you’ve got to be pretty enthusiastic about the later career path of an idiosyncratic colossus of modern piano music and his unflinching indifference to popular tastes or prevailing cultural winds of any kind.
These sessions reveal the high-pressure intricacies of a Taylor improvisation with remarkable clarity. Oxley’s flickering, clickety figures, tiny ringing sounds, tabla-like sonorities and shimmering splashes complement Parker’s thick, pliable sound and impulsive ingenuity, and Taylor’s headlong runs and fierce density are beautifully caught by the recording – it’s like having a grand piano in your room, particularly with the muscularity of the instrument’s bass register.
The transparency of the sound enhances the differences of intensity and shape across these shows, though the set is intentionally a chronicle of the way a brilliant free-improvising ensemble works over a sustained period, rather than the interpretation of a repertoire. A very specialised item, certainly, but for Taylor disciples, and the more generally musically curious, it is breathtaking.
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