Silent Tongues

• Artist: Cecil Taylor
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• Release Date: July 02, 1974
• Total Time: 52:03
• Type: Live, Instrumental
• Genre: Jazz

Review

This is a classic Cecil Taylor solo concert, performed at the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival. Taylor plays his five-movement work "Silent Tongues," along with a couple of brief encores. To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Abyss (First Movement)/Petal s and Filaments (Second Movement) /Jitney	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(18:23)
Crossing, Pt. 1 [Fourth Movement , Pt. 1]	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(8:36)
Crossing, Pt. 2 [Fourth Movement , Pt. 1]	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(10:00)
After All [Fifth Movement]	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(9:59)
Jitney No. 2	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(4:11)
After All No. 2	Cecil Taylor	Cecil Taylor	(2:50)

Credits

Cecil Taylor (Piano), Cecil Taylor (Main Performer), Alan Bates (Producer), Michael Cuscuna (Producer), Stephan Sulke (Engineer), Benno Friedman (Art Direction), Michael Wilderman (Photography)