Silent Tongues: Crossing, Part 1

Cecil Taylor · 1974 · Quatrième mouvement, 1re partie (8:36)

Context

Piece recorded solo by Cecil Taylor at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 2 July 1974, then released in 1975 by the Freedom label on the album Silent Tongues. It corresponds to the first part of the fourth movement of the work and lasts 8 min 36.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Free jazz. Among the origins and influences of Free jazz: Tristano School, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Modal.

By the same artist

• Silent Tongues: Abyss / Petals and Filaments / Jitney (1974)
• Silent Tongues: After All (1974)
• Jitney No. 2 (1974)
• Steps (1966)
• Enter, Evening (1966)
• Unit Structure/As of a Now/Section (1966)

Sources

• EN: Silent Tongues

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