The discography of American pianist and poet Cecil Taylor encompasses approximately one hundred and eight albums.
Albums
As leader Recording date Title Label Year released Additional information 1956-09 Jazz Advance Transition 1957 Debut album 1957-07 At Newport Verve 1958 Live with the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory 1958-06 Looking Ahead! Contemporary 1959https://www.allmusic.com/album/looking-ahead-mw0000197292 1958-10 Hard Driving Jazz also released as Coltrane Time and Stereo Drive United Artists/Blue Note 1959 With John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes (and other editions with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles). 1959-04 Love for Sale United Artists 1959 1960-10 The World of Cecil Taylor Candid 1960 1960-10 Air Candid 19901961-01 New York City R&B Barnaby 1972 with Buell Neidlinger1961-01 Cell Walk for Celeste Candid 1988 1961-01 Jumpin' Punkins Candid 19871962-10 The Early Unit 1962 Ingo (Bootleg) ? Live at Stockholm1962-11 Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come also released as Complete Live At The Cafe Montmartre Revenant 1963 Live at Copenhagen 1966-05 Unit Structures Blue Note 1966 1966-10 Conquistador! Blue Note 19681966-10, 1969-11 Live in Stuttgart BMM (Bootleg) ? [2CDR] Live in Stuttgart1966-11 Student Studies also released as The Great Paris Concert BYG/Black Lion 1973 Live1967-07 Rotterdam 1967 Headless Hawk (Bootleg) ? [CDR] Live at Rotterdam 1968-07 Praxis Praxis 1982 [2LP] Live 1968-10 Respiration Fundacja Słuchaj! 2022 Live at Warsaw 1969-07 The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Prestige 1977 Live 1969-11 In Europe Jazz Connoisseur (Bootleg) ? Live 1971-07 Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 FreeFactory 2009 Live in NYC. bonus tracks rec. 1965 1973-03 Indent Unit Core 1973 Live 1973-05 Akisakila Trio 1973 Live 1973-05 Solo Trio 1973 Live 1973-11 Spring of Two Blue J's Unit Core 1974 Live in NYC. vinyl release was 2000 copies. 1973-11 The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert Oblivion 2022 Live in NYC 1974-07 Silent Tongues Freedom 1975 Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1976-06 Dark to Themselves Enja 1977 Live in Ljubljana 1976-08 Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within) Enja 1978 Live in Langau1977-04 Embraced Pablo Live 1978 [2LP] Live with Mary Lou Williams1978-04 Cecil Taylor Unit New World 19781978-04 3 Phasis New World 19781978-06 Live in the Black Forest MPS 1978 Live in Black Forest1978-06 One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye Hat Hut 1980 Live in Stuttgart1979-12 Historic Concerts Soul Note 1984 Live with Max Roach at Columbia University1980-02 It Is in the Brewing Luminous Hat Hut 1981 Live1980-09 Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! 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MPS 1981 Live1981-11 The Eighth Hat Hut 1986 Live1981-11 Garden Hat Hut 1982 Live1984-10 Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Soul Note 19851984-10 Music from Two Continents (Live at Jazz Jamboree '84) Fundacja Słuchaj! 2021 Live1986-02 Iwontunwonsi Sound Hills 1995 Live1986-02 Amewa Sound Hills 1995 Live1986-04 For Olim Soul Note 1987 Live1986-04 Olu Iwa Soul Note 1987 Live 1987-11 Live in Bologna Leo 1987 Live in Bologna1987-11 Live in Vienna Leo 1988 Live in Vienna1987-11 Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil Leo 1988 Live1987-11 Chinampas Leo 1987 1988-06 Riobec FMP 1989 Live with Günter Sommer1988-06 In East Berlin FMP 1989 [2CD] Live1988-06 Regalia FMP 1989 Live with Paul Lovens1988-06 The Hearth FMP 1989 Live with Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker1988-07 Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) FMP 1989 Live in Berlin1988-07 Remembrance FMP 1989 Live with Louis Moholo1988-07 Pleistozaen Mit Wasser FMP 1989 Live with Derek Bailey1988-07 Spots, Circles, and Fantasy FMP 1989 Live with Han Bennink1988-07 Legba Crossing FMP 1989 Live1988-07 Erzulie Maketh Scent FMP 1989 Live1988-07 Leaf Palm Hand FMP 1989 Live with Tony Oxley1989-06 In Florescence A&M 19901989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) Solo FMP 1990 Live1989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio FMP 1990 Live1989-11 Looking (Berlin Version) Corona FMP 1991 Live1990-06 Celebrated Blazons FMP 1993 Live1990-08, 1990-09 2 Ts for a Lovely T Codanza Records 2002 [10CD Limited Edition] Live in London1990-09 Göttingen Fundacja Słuchaj! 2021 [2CD] Live 1990-09 Double Holy House FMP 1993 Live1990-09 Nailed FMP 2000 Live1990-09 Melancholy FMP 1999 Live with Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs 1990-07 CT: The Dance Project FMP 2008 Live with William Parker and Masashi Harada 1991-03 The Tree of Life FMP 1998 Live piano solo1992-07 Duets 1992 Triple Point Records 2019 with Bill Dixon1993-04 Always a Pleasure FMP 1996 Live1996-11 Corona FMP 2018 Live with Sunny Murray1996-11 Almeda FMP 2004 Live as nonet1996-11 The Light of Corona FMP 2003 Live1998-03 Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 Cadence Jazz 1998 Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall 1998-03 Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 Cadence Jazz 1998 Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall1998-08 Momentum Space Verve 1999 with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones 1998-10 Lifting the Bandstand Fundacja Słuchaj! 2021 Live1999-02 Algonquin Bridge 2004 Live. Great Performances from the Library of Congress – Vol. 18; with Mat Maneri.1999-05 Poschiavo Black Sun 2018 Live solo piano at the Uncool Festival, Poschiavo, Switzerland1999-11 Incarnation FMP 2004 Live2000-02 All the Notes Cadence 2004 Live2000-05 At Angelica 2000 Bologna I Dischi Di Angelica 2020 [2CD] Live recorded during Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, 10th Edition, May 5–13 and July 5–6, 2000, Bologna, Italy2000-05 Complicité Les Disques Victo 2001 Live at the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada)2000-09 The Willisau Concert Intakt 2002 Live solo piano at the Jazzfestival Willisau 2000-09 The Owner of the River Bank also released as Live In Ruvo Di Puglia 2000 (2021) Enja 2003 Live with the Italian Instabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia (South Italy) 2002-05Being Astral and All Registers – Power of Two Discus 2020 Live with Tony Oxley 2002-05 Taylor/Dixon/Oxley Les Disques Victo 2002 Live at the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley 2003-10 The Last Dance Cadence Jazz 2009 Live with Dominic Duval 2008-02Conversations with Tony Oxley Jazzwerkstatt 2018 Live with Tony Oxley 2008-11Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs Triple Point Records 2009 Live with Tony Oxley 2011-11Birdland, Neuburg 2011 Fundacja Słuchaj! 2020 Live with Tony Oxley
Compilations In Transition (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1955 and 1959; compiles tracks from Jazz Advance and Love for Sale In Berlin '88 (FMP, 1989)[11CD] – recorded in 1988 Crossing (Jazz Hour, 1989) – recorded in 1966, 73, 74. two tracks with Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille plus four tracks solo piano; contains excerpts from Student Studies, Indent, and Silent Tongues. Mixed with Roswell Rudd (Impulse!, 1998)
As sideman John Coltrane, Stereo Drive (United Artists, 1959) – rec. 1958 Gil Evans Orchestra, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961. features tracks also released on Mixed. Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA, 1968) – featured on 2 tracks Friedrich Gulda, Nachricht vom Lande (Brain, 1976)[2LP] – 3 tracks Tony Williams, The Joy of Flying (Columbia, 1978) – 1 track Art Ensemble of Chicago, Thelonious Sphere Monk (DIW, 1991) – rec. 1990. 3 tracks.
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