Unit Structures

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Unit Structures
Studio album by Cecil Taylor
Released 1966
Recorded May 19, 1966
Genre Free jazz
Length 46:27
Label Blue Note
Producer Alfred Lion
Cecil Taylor chronology

Nefertiti the Beautiful One Has Come
(1962)		 Unit Structures
(1966)		 Conquistador!
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz [2]

Unit Structures is a 1966 album by Cecil Taylor released on the Blue Note label. The Allmusic Review by Scott Yanow states "Taylor's high-energy atonalism fit in well with the free jazz of the period but he was actually leading the way rather than being part of a movement... In fact, it could be safely argued that no jazz music of the era approached the ferocity and intensity of Cecil Taylor's".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it four and a half stars, writing "Unit Structures is both as mathematically complex as its title suggests and as rich in colour and sound as the ensemble proposes, with the orchestrally varied sounds of the two bassists — Grimes a strong, elemental driving force, Silva tonally fugitive and mysterious — while Stevens and McIntyre add other hues and Lyons improvises with and against them."[2]

Track listing

All compositions written by Cecil Taylor.

  1. "Steps" – 10:20
  2. "Enter, Evening" – 11:06
  3. "Enter, Evening [alternate take]" – 10:11 Bonus track on CD release
  4. "Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section" – 17:47
  5. "Tales (8 Whisps)" – 7:14
  • Recorded at Englewood Cliffs NJ, May 19, 1966

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004).
  3. ↑ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed 10 July 2009


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