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Cecil Taylor
Released 1974

Crossing (Fourth Movement) Part One
08:36
68 plays

After All (Fifth Movement)
09:59
60 plays

Crossing (Fourth Movement) Part Two
10:00
59 plays

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- 1
- Abyss (First Movement)/Petals & Filaments (Second Movement)/Jitney (Third Movement)
- 18:23
- 300 plays

- 2
- Crossing (Fourth Movement) Part One
- 08:36
- 68 plays

- 3
- Crossing (Fourth Movement) Part Two
- 10:00
- 59 plays

- 4
- After All (Fifth Movement)
- 09:59
- 60 plays

- 5
- Jitney No. 2
- 04:11
- 54 plays

- 6
- After All No. 2
- 02:50
- 50 plays

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album 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