
Artist
Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor is a jazz artist. 96 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 96
- Releases
- 1959–2025
- Active years

Artist
Cecil Taylor is a jazz artist. 96 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Most popular
Unit Structures
1966 · 4 tracks

Conquistador!
1967

Love for Sale
1998

Jazz Advance
1991

The World of Cecil Taylor
2001
Dreaming of the Masters Vol.2
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WKCR in the Studio NYC 1978
2025

Flashing Spirits
2025

The Classic Albums
2025

Newport Jazz Festival '65
2024

Freebody Park, Newport 1965
2024

Jazz Advice
2023

Milestones of Jazz Legends - Avantgarde the New Thing, Vol. 10
2023

The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert at the Town Hall N.Y.C. November 4, 1973
2022

Embraced (Live In New York City, NY / April 17, 1977)
2022

Newport 1965 (Live)
2022

Spring of Two Blue-J's (Live)
2021

Hard Driving Jazz
2020

Being Astral and All Regiters - Power of Two (Live at the Ulrichsberg Festival, May 10th 2002)
2020

Cecil Selection
2020

Mysteries: Untitled
2019

Cecil Taylor 1955-61 (Remastered)
2019

Greatest Hits
2018

Silent Tongues
2018

Mysteries: Second Set of Indent
2018

Conversations with Tony Oxley (Live)
2018

Poschiavo
2018

Taylor: Algonquin (Live)
2017

Jazz Milestones: Cecil Taylor, Vol. 3
2017

Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!
2016

Cecil Taylor Live in the Black Forest
2016

Jazz Advantage
2015

Garden 1st Set
2015

Garden 2nd Set (Live)
2015

Port of Call
2014

Carol Three Points
2014

Get Out Of Town
2014

African Violets
2014

Jazz Masters
2014

Wallering
2014
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Three Classic Albums Plus (Jazz Advance / Looking Ahead / The World of Cecil Taylor) [Remastered]
2014

The Willisau Concert
2014

The Best Jazz, Cecil Taylor
2013

Nona's Blues, Vol. 3
2013

Nona's Blues, Vol. 1
2013

Nona's Blues, Vol. 2
2013

Jumpin' Pumkins (Live)
2013

Number One, Vol. 2
2013

Number One, Vol. 1
2013

Number One, Vol. 3
2013

Lazy Afternoon
2013

Jazz Legends: Cecil Taylor
2013

New York City
2013

Essential Jazz Masters (1956-1962)
2013

I Forgot
2012

Cell Walk
2012

Original Jazz Sound: Jumpin' Punkins
2012

Looking Ahead! / Hard Driving Jazz (Stereo Drive) / Love For Sale
2011

Looking Ahead
2011

Loooking Ahead (Remastered)
2011

Essential Jazz Masters
2010

Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Tony Oxley
2010

The World of Cecil Taylor/Love for Sale
2007

Momentum Space
2007

Looking Ahead/Stereo Drive (Hard Driving Jazz)
2006

The Enja Heritage Collection: The Owner Of The River Bank
2006

Jumpin' Punkins
2006

Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil
2004

Live At Cafe Montmarte
2000

Stereo Drive
2000

Cell Walk For Celeste
1998

Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come - Live At The Cafe Montmartre, 1962
1997

AMEWA - LIVE AT SWEET BASIL
1995

IWONTUNWONSI - LIVE AT SWEET BASIL
1995

Olu Iwa
1994

Air
1990

Garden Part 1
1990

Garden Part 2
1990
In Florescence
1990
Erzulie Maketh Scent
1989
Pleistozaen Mit Wasser
1989
In East-Berlin
1989
Leaf Palm Hand
1989

New York City R&B
1989
Legba Crossing
1989

For Olim
1987

Segments II-Winged Serpent
1985
Historic Concerts
1984

Historic Concerts (Live)
1984

Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis
1979
The Cecil Taylor Unit
1978

Live At Michigan State University, April 15th 1976 (Remastered)
1976

Live At Ann Arbor, 15 April, 1976 (Remastered)
1976

Berliner Philharmonie, 1969 (Live)
1969
Hard Drivin' Jazz
1959
Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 25, 1929) is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as "eighty-eight tuned drums" (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano). He has also been described as "like Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings". Taylor began playing piano at age six and studied at the New York College of Music and New England Conservatory. After first steps in R&B and swing-styled small groups in the early 1950s, he formed his own band with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1956. Taylor's first recording, Jazz Advance, featured Lacy and was released in 1956. It is described by Cook and Morton in the Penguin Guide to Jazz: "While there are still many nods to conventional post-bop form in this set, it already points to the freedoms which the pianist would later immerse himself in." Taylor's Quartet featuring Lacy also appeared at the…