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Cecil Taylor 10/??/1997

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Cecil Taylor p
Dominic Duval b
Jackson Krall d

2nd of 2 tapes, 1 set per tape, recorded from 6 nights performances (2 sets per night), tape labels say only 1997. Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography lists 6 dates: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12; 1997-10-10 LA Times review confirms "six-night run".

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Notes: Cecil Taylor XX Oct 1997 Culver City, CA Venue: The Jazz Bakery Cecil Taylor piano Dominic Duval bass Jackson Krall drums Cecil Taylor - Jazz Bakery 1.mpg (60:27 m:s) Audience Video Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography says "Primary Source: Heinrich Smejkal, Private Video tape." First of 2 tapes, 1 set per tape, recorded from 6 nights performances (2 sets per night), tape labels say only 1997. Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography says "4 consecutive nights engagement" but lists 6 dates: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12; 1997-10-10 LA Times review confirms "six-night run". (see details below) Lineage: ex-library VHS cassette from Johnson City Public Library (scan of label included), purchased I don't remember where or when > Sony SLV-679HF > USB Ion Video2PC > CyberLink PowerDirector V8 > mpg2/LPCM file ------------------------------------ gspot info: File Name: Cecil Taylor - Jazz Bakery 1.mpg File Size: 4,395,112,448 Bytes Video Codec: MPEG2 Video Bitrate: 8016 kb/s QPel?: H264?: GMC: Audio Codec: DVD_LPCM_AUDIO (vlc says 48000Hz, 16bit) Audio Bitrate: kb/s Audio Bitrate Type: Duration: 1:00:28 Frame Count: 108724 Frames Per Second: 29.970 Display Aspect Ratio: 1.333 Frame Width: 720 Frame Height: 480 ------------------------------------ Windows Properties says: Video: Length: 01:00:27 Frame Width: 720 Frame Height: 480 Data Rate: 8300kbps Total Bitrate: 9836kbps Frame Rate: 29 frames/second Audio: Bit Rate: 1536kbps Channels: 2 (stereo) Audio Sample Rate: 48kHz ------------------------------------ ============================================================================ From http://jdisc.columbia.edu/session/cecil-taylor-october-7-12-1997 Cecil Taylor October 7-12, 1997 Main Session Personnel: Cecil Taylor piano Dominic Duval bass Jackson Krall drums # Tracks Playtime Issue Variance from Main Session Personnel 1 Untitled Improvization 50:00 genre: Free jazz, experimental, avant-garde Recording Date: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12 Venue Type: live performance Venue Name: The Jazz Bakery Venue Location: Culver City, CA Session Details: This is a live trio performance at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, CA. This session is only listed on the Cecil Taylor Research Group source; where it states that this was a "four nights engagement." There is a private tape (audience recording) of each of the four nights available. There is only one track, a lengthy "Untitled Improvization" played each night; each nightly performance ranges from 48-52 minutes in length. For our purposes, we have included all four performances as one, as the personnel, location, etc is the same, and because we otherwise have very little information. Furthermore, for track length, we have used a rough average of "50:00" in order to represent all of the nights. We have included this session to: 1) stay true to the sources that we're using, and 2) in the hopes that someone may come forward with additional information, or perhaps with access to any of the tapes. Please contact our Program Director at if you can provide any additional information about these performances. Sources: Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography (http://www.webmutations.com/ceciltaylor/index.html) & R. Shapiro's Cecil Taylor discography (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mtaylors.html ============================================================================ http://www.webmutations.com/ seems to be gone, but internet archive still has it: 97.10.7 97.10.8 97.10.9 97.10.10 97.10.11 97.10.12 CECIL TAYLOR TRIO The Jazz Bakery, Culver City, CA (USA) Cecil Taylor (p) Dominic Duval (b) Jackson Krall (dr) 1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 61:00 Notes: 4 consecutive nights engagement. Primary Source: Heinrich Smejkal, Private Video tape. also, in personal email to jason, joe pierre on 2/6/05: cecil played with dominik duvall and jackson krall at the Jazz Bakery in October 1997. He was there the 7th (Monday) through the 12th (Sunday) and played two sets per night, one at 8:30 and one at 10:00 (except on Sunday when the times were 6 and 8). I was there on the 8th for the first set, but so few attended, they allowed us to stay for the 2nd set without an additional admission fee. i do remember that cecil played some usually "lyrical" phrases that were really pretty, and he recited some poetics, but mostly it was the trio going full blast. ============================================================================ From http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/10/entertainment/ca-41099 JAZZ REVIEW Taylor Brings an Abstract Touch to Piano October 10, 1997|DON HECKMAN | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Pianist Cecil Taylor is one of the few remaining, still actively creative links to the jazz avant-garde years of the '50s and '60s. Tuesday, in the opening set of his six-night run at the Jazz Bakery, he provided a persuasive musical argument for the continued vitality of his freely spontaneous approach to jazz improvisation. Garbed in white, wearing dark sunglasses, his long, wispy dreadlocks hanging down over his shoulders, Taylor hovered over the piano, his gaze fixed upon the keyboard. An efficient player, he was not given to particularly dramatic movements, with all the action converging through his hands, which moved with blinding speed and triphammer force. The set began unceremoniously, with Taylor and his accompanists--bassist Dominik Duvall and drummer Jackson Krall--starting to play while much of the audience was still in the outer lobby. There were no announcements, no apparent tunes, only a nonstop, continuing improvisation for the full 80 minutes or so that Taylor was onstage. At one point, he suddenly removed his hands from the keyboard, picked up a piece of paper from the top of the piano and read what appeared to be an abstract poem. That concluded, he resumed his attack upon the keys. The music had no familiar reference points. It was not improvisation based upon a tune, a harmony, a structure or a rhythm. It was, in fact, determinedly anarchic. Was there a there there? Did the moderate-sized crowd, some of whom nodded their heads in response to some kind of presumed rhythm in the turbulent flow of sound, actually hear something that was musically significant, or were they simply applauding enthusiastically for the emperor's new clothes? The answer is that Taylor's music--viewed on the terms by which he presents it--is filled with fascinating experiential values. Heard as an unfolding tapestry of sound, it was comparable to an abstract expressionist painting, devoid of representational character, but making an impact in a purely emotional, nonspecific sense. That said, however, Taylor's playing, despite his insistent anarchic spontaneity, was still subject to certain essential principles of music. Like all music, it moved through time; like most music, it was dependent upon the innate structure of repetitions; and like Western music, it was framed within the 12 notes of the chromatic tempered scale. And, whether Taylor chooses to acknowledge it or not, fundamental musical elements--the elements of repetition and sequence--played a significant role in joining his improvisation with his audience. And those occasional repetitions of phrases and rhythms, the melodic patterns that moved in sequence, one after the other, were the key that opened the door to Taylor's music, making it possible for listeners to relate to its compelling rhythmic movement and emotional flow. * The Cecil Taylor Trio at the Jazz Bakery through Sunday, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City, (310) 271-9039. $20 admission tonight and Saturday at 8:30 and 10 p.m., and Sunday at 6 p.m. $18 admission Sunday at 8 p.m. ============================================================================
Joe (5/5) DVD / 0 View  
Notes: Cecil Taylor XX Oct 1997 Culver City, CA Venue: The Jazz Bakery Cecil Taylor piano Dominic Duval bass Jackson Krall drums Cecil Taylor - Jazz Bakery 2.mpg (47:53 m:s) Audience Video Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography says "Primary Source: Heinrich Smejkal, Private Video tape." Second of 2 tapes, 1 set per tape, recorded from 6 nights performances (2 sets per night), tape labels say only 1997. Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography says "4 consecutive nights engagement" but lists 6 dates: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12; 1997-10-10 LA Times review confirms "six-night run". (see details below) Lineage: ex-library VHS cassette from Johnson City Public Library (scan of label included), purchased I don't remember where or when > Sony SLV-679HF > USB Ion Video2PC > CyberLink PowerDirector V8 > mpg2/LPCM file gspot info: File Name: Cecil Taylor - Jazz Bakery 2.mpg File Size: 3,484,311,552 Bytes Video Codec: MPEG2 Video Bitrate: 8025 kb/s QPel?: H264?: GMC: Audio Codec: DVD_LPCM_AUDIO (vlc says 48000Hz, 16bit) Audio Bitrate: kb/s Audio Bitrate Type: Duration: 47:53.299 Frame Count: 86112 Frames Per Second: 29.970 Display Aspect Ratio: 1.333 Frame Width: 720 Frame Height: 480 ------------------------------------ Windows Properties says: Video: Length: 0:47:53 Frame Width: 720 Frame Height: 480 Data Rate: 8300kbps Total Bitrate: 9836kbps Frame Rate: 29 frames/second Audio: Bit Rate: 1536kbps Channels: 2 (stereo) Audio Sample Rate: 48kHz ------------------------------------ ============================================================================ From http://jdisc.columbia.edu/session/cecil-taylor-october-7-12-1997 Cecil Taylor October 7-12, 1997 Main Session Personnel: Cecil Taylor piano Dominic Duval bass Jackson Krall drums # Tracks Playtime Issue Variance from Main Session Personnel 1 Untitled Improvization 50:00 genre: Free jazz, experimental, avant-garde Recording Date: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12 Venue Type: live performance Venue Name: The Jazz Bakery Venue Location: Culver City, CA Session Details: This is a live trio performance at the Jazz Bakery in Culver City, CA. This session is only listed on the Cecil Taylor Research Group source; where it states that this was a "four nights engagement." There is a private tape (audience recording) of each of the four nights available. There is only one track, a lengthy "Untitled Improvization" played each night; each nightly performance ranges from 48-52 minutes in length. For our purposes, we have included all four performances as one, as the personnel, location, etc is the same, and because we otherwise have very little information. Furthermore, for track length, we have used a rough average of "50:00" in order to represent all of the nights. We have included this session to: 1) stay true to the sources that we're using, and 2) in the hopes that someone may come forward with additional information, or perhaps with access to any of the tapes. Please contact our Program Director at if you can provide any additional information about these performances. Sources: Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography (http://www.webmutations.com/ceciltaylor/index.html) & R. Shapiro's Cecil Taylor discography (http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mtaylors.html ============================================================================ http://www.webmutations.com/ seems to be gone, but internet archive still has it: From http://web.archive.org/web/20130602205843/http://www.webmutations.com/ceciltaylor/1997.html 97.10.7 97.10.8 97.10.9 97.10.10 97.10.11 97.10.12 CECIL TAYLOR TRIO The Jazz Bakery, Culver City, CA (USA) Cecil Taylor (p) Dominic Duval (b) Jackson Krall (dr) 1) Untitled Improvisation (Taylor) 48:00 Notes: 4 consecutive nights engagement. Primary Source: Heinrich Smejkal, Private Video tape ============================================================================ From http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/10/entertainment/ca-41099 JAZZ REVIEW Taylor Brings an Abstract Touch to Piano October 10, 1997|DON HECKMAN | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Pianist Cecil Taylor is one of the few remaining, still actively creative links to the jazz avant-garde years of the '50s and '60s. Tuesday, in the opening set of his six-night run at the Jazz Bakery, he provided a persuasive musical argument for the continued vitality of his freely spontaneous approach to jazz improvisation. Garbed in white, wearing dark sunglasses, his long, wispy dreadlocks hanging down over his shoulders, Taylor hovered over the piano, his gaze fixed upon the keyboard. An efficient player, he was not given to particularly dramatic movements, with all the action converging through his hands, which moved with blinding speed and triphammer force. The set began unceremoniously, with Taylor and his accompanists--bassist Dominik Duvall and drummer Jackson Krall--starting to play while much of the audience was still in the outer lobby. There were no announcements, no apparent tunes, only a nonstop, continuing improvisation for the full 80 minutes or so that Taylor was onstage. At one point, he suddenly removed his hands from the keyboard, picked up a piece of paper from the top of the piano and read what appeared to be an abstract poem. That concluded, he resumed his attack upon the keys. The music had no familiar reference points. It was not improvisation based upon a tune, a harmony, a structure or a rhythm. It was, in fact, determinedly anarchic. Was there a there there? Did the moderate-sized crowd, some of whom nodded their heads in response to some kind of presumed rhythm in the turbulent flow of sound, actually hear something that was musically significant, or were they simply applauding enthusiastically for the emperor's new clothes? The answer is that Taylor's music--viewed on the terms by which he presents it--is filled with fascinating experiential values. Heard as an unfolding tapestry of sound, it was comparable to an abstract expressionist painting, devoid of representational character, but making an impact in a purely emotional, nonspecific sense. That said, however, Taylor's playing, despite his insistent anarchic spontaneity, was still subject to certain essential principles of music. Like all music, it moved through time; like most music, it was dependent upon the innate structure of repetitions; and like Western music, it was framed within the 12 notes of the chromatic tempered scale. And, whether Taylor chooses to acknowledge it or not, fundamental musical elements--the elements of repetition and sequence--played a significant role in joining his improvisation with his audience. And those occasional repetitions of phrases and rhythms, the melodic patterns that moved in sequence, one after the other, were the key that opened the door to Taylor's music, making it possible for listeners to relate to its compelling rhythmic movement and emotional flow. * The Cecil Taylor Trio at the Jazz Bakery through Sunday, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City, (310) 271-9039. $20 admission tonight and Saturday at 8:30 and 10 p.m., and Sunday at 6 p.m. $18 admission Sunday at 8 p.m. ============================================================================
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Notes: Cecil Taylor p Dominic Duval b Jackson Krall d First of 2 tapes, 1 set per tape, recorded from 6 nights performances (2 sets per night), tape labels say only 1997. Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography lists 6 dates: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12; 1997-10-10 LA Times review confirms "six-night run".
Jack Warner (5/5) MPG / 0 View   Audience video>?>VHS>MPG
Notes: Cecil Taylor p Dominic Duval b Jackson Krall d 2nd of 2 tapes, 1 set per tape, recorded from 6 nights performances (2 sets per night), tape labels say only 1997. Cecil Taylor Research Group's sessionography lists 6 dates: 1997-10-07 - 1997-10-12; 1997-10-10 LA Times review confirms "six-night run".