The Cecil Taylor Quartet - Looking Ahead! flac album

Looking Ahead! is the second album by pianist Cecil Taylor, recorded for the Contemporary label in June 1958. The album features performances by Taylor with Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles, and Earl Griffith.

Piano – Cecil Taylor. Remastered By – Phil De Lancie. Supervised By, Liner Notes – Nat Hentoff. Vibraphone – Earl Griffith. Recorded at Nola's Penthouse Studios, NYC; June 9, 1958. Looking Ahead! ‎ (LP, Album, RE, RM). Original Jazz Classics, Contemporary Records. COP 030. The Cecil Taylor Quartet.

At Newport is a live album by the Gigi Gryce–Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory and the Cecil Taylor Quartet recorded for the Verve label at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1957. The original LP album featured one side of performances by Taylor with Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles and Steve Lacy and the other by Gryce, Byrd, Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, and Osie Johnson.

One of Cecil Taylor's earliest recordings, Looking Ahead! does just that while still keeping several toes in the tradition. It's an amazing document of a talent fairly straining at the reins, a meteor about to burst onto the jazz scene and render it forever changed. With Earl Griffith on vibes, Taylor uses an instrumentation he would return to occasionally much later on, one that lends an extra percussive layer to the session, emphasizing the new rhythmic attacks he was experimenting with

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