Garden (album) explained

Garden
Type:Live album
Artist:Cecil Taylor
Cover:Garden (Cecil Taylor album).jpg
Released:1982
Recorded:November 16, 1981
Genre:Free jazz
Label:Hat Hut
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Prev Year:1981
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Garden is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Basel Switzerland, November 16, 1981 and released on the Hat Hut label. The album features seven solo performances by Taylor on a Bösendorfer grand piano and was originally released as a double LP in 1982 and then rereleased as two single CDs entitled Garden Part 1 and Garden Part 2 in 1990.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states:

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.

  1. "Elell" - 26:40
  2. "Garden II" - 24:40
  3. "Garden I + Stepping On Stars" - 20:10
  4. "Introduction To Z" - 8:15
  5. "Driver Says" - 3:20
  6. "Pemmican" - 6:20
  7. "Points" - 2:30

Personnel

piano

Notes and References

  1. http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mtaylord.html Cecil Taylor Sessionography