Grade List: Cecil Taylor

  1. Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance (1956 [1991], Blue Note) A-
  2. Cecil Taylor: Looking Ahead! (1958 [1990], Contemporary/OJC) B+(***)
  3. Cecil Taylor: Love for Sale (1959, Blue Note) A-
  4. Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor (1960, Candid) A
  5. Cecil Taylor: Air (1960, Candid) A-
  6. Cecil Taylor [Buell Neidlinger]: New York City R&B (1961, Candid) B+(***)
  7. Cecil Taylor: Jumpin' Punkins (1961, Candid) B+
  8. Cecil Taylor: Cell Walk for Celeste (1961 [1988], Candid) B+(**)
  9. Cecil Taylor: The Complete Candid Recordings of Cecil Taylor (1960, Mosaic)
  10. Cecil Taylor: Live at the Cafe Montmartre (1962 [1963], Debut)
  11. Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (1962 [1997], Revenant) A-
  12. Cecil Taylor [Roswell Rudd]: Mixed (1961-1966 [1998], Impulse) B+
  13. Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966 [1987], Blue Note) B+
  14. Cecil Taylor: Mixed to Unit Structures Revisited (1961-1966 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
  15. Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! (1966, Blue Note) B+
  16. Cecil Taylor: Student Studies (1966 [2003], Fuel 2000) B+
  17. Cecil Taylor: With (Exit) to Student Studies Revisited (1966 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
  18. Cecil Taylor: Fondation Maeght Nights (Vol. 1) (1969, Jazz View) B
  19. Cecil Taylor: The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (1969, Prestige)
  20. Cecil Taylor Unit: Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (1969 [2026], Elemental Music) A-
  21. Cecil Taylor: Indent (1973 [1977], Arista/Freedom) B
  22. Cecil Taylor: Mysteries: Indent: Antioch College/Yellow Springs, Ohio/March 11, 1973 (1973 [2018], Black Sun Music) B+(***)
  23. Cecil Taylor: Akisakila Volume 1 (1973, Konnex)
  24. Cecil Taylor: Akisakila Volume 2 (1973, Konnex)
  25. Cecil Taylor: Spring of Two Blue J's (1973, Jazz View) B+
  26. Cecil Taylor: The Complete, Legendary Live Return Concert: The Town Hall, NYC November 4, 1973 (1973 [2022], Oblivion) A-
  27. Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues (1974, Arista/Freedom) A-
  28. Cecil Taylor: Dark to Themselves (1976 [1990], Enja) B
  29. Cecil Taylor: Mysteries: Untitled (1961-1976 [2019], Black Sun) B+(**)
  30. Cecil Taylor: Air Above Mountains (1976, Enja)
  31. Cecil Taylor: The Cecil Taylor Unit (1978, New World) B+
  32. Cecil Taylor: 3 Phasis (1978 [1979], New World) B
  33. Cecil Taylor: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (1978 [1980], Hat Art) A-
  34. Cecil Taylor: Live in the Black Forest (1978 [1979], 2016), MPS) B+(**)
  35. Cecil Taylor: It Is in the Brewing Luminous (1980 [1990], Hat Art) B+
  36. Cecil Taylor: The Eighth (1981 [2006], Hatology) A-
  37. Cecil Taylor: Garden 1st Set (1981 [2015], Hatology) B+(***)
  38. Cecil Taylor: Garden 2nd Set (1981 [2015], Hatology) B+(***)
  39. Cecil Taylor: Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) (1984, Soul Note) B
  40. Cecil Taylor: For Olim (1986, Soul Note) B
  41. Cecil Taylor: Olu Iwa (1986, Soul Note) A-
  42. Cecil Taylor: Tzotzil Mummers Tzotzil (1987 [1988], Leo) B+(*)
  43. The Cecil Taylor Unit: Live in Bologna (1987 [1988], Leo) A-
  44. The Cecil Taylor Unit: Live in Vienna (1987 [1991], Leo) B+(***)
  45. Cecil Taylor: Legba Crossing (1988 [1989], FMP) B+(***)
  46. Cecil Taylor: Erzulie Maketh Scent (1988, FMP) B+
  47. Cecil Taylor: Pleistozaen Mit Wasser (1988, FMP)
  48. Cecil Taylor: Leaf Palm Hand (1988, FMP)
  49. Cecil Taylor: Spots, Circles and Fantasy (1988, FMP)
  50. Cecil Taylor: Regalia (1988, FMP)
  51. Cecil Taylor: Remembrance (1988, FMP)
  52. Cecil Taylor: The Hearth (1988, FMP)
  53. Cecil Taylor: Riobec (1988, FMP)
  54. Cecil Taylor: Alms / Tiergarten (Spree) (1988, FMP) B
  55. Cecil Taylor: In East Berlin (1988, FMP)
  56. Cecil Taylor [Tony Oxley]: Flashing Spirits (1989 [2025], Burning Ambulance) A-
  57. Cecil Taylor: Looking (Berlin Version) (1989, FMP)
  58. Cecil Taylor: Looking (Berlin Version) Corona (1989, FMP)
  59. Cecil Taylor: Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio (1989 [1990], FMP) A-
  60. Cecil Taylor: In Florescence (1989, A&M)
  61. Cecil Taylor [William Parker, Tony Oxley]: Celebrated Blazons [The Feel Trio] (1990 [1993], FMP) A-
  62. Cecil Taylor: Double Holy House (1990, FMP)
  63. Cecil Taylor: Melancholy (1990, FMP)
  64. Cecil Taylor: Nailed (1990, FMP)
  65. Cecil Taylor: Göttingen (1990 [2021], Fundacja Sluchaj) B+(***)
  66. Cecil Taylor: The Tree of Life (1991, FMP) B+
  67. Cecil Taylor: Always a Pleasure (1993 [1996], FMP) B+
  68. Cecil Taylor: 2 Ts for a Lovely T (1995, Codanza)
  69. Cecil Taylor: Qu'a: Live at the Iridium Vol. 1 (1998, Cadence) B
  70. Cecil Taylor: Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium Vol. 2 (1998, Cadence)
  71. Cecil Taylor Quintet: Lifting the Bandstand (1998 [2021], Fundacja Sluchaj) A-
  72. Cecil Taylor: Algonquin (1999 [2004], Bridge) B+(***)
  73. Cecil Taylor: Poschiavo (1999 [2018], Black Sun) B+(***)
  74. Cecil Taylor: Nailed (2000, FMP)
  75. Cecil Taylor: The Willisau Concert (2000 [2002], Intakt) A-
  76. Cecil Taylor: At Angelica 2000 Bologna (2000 [2020], I Dischi Di Angelica) B+(**)
  77. Cecil Taylor: Cecil Taylor / Bill Dixon / Tony Oxley (2002, Victo) B+(**)
  78. Cecil Taylor [Tony Oxley]: Being Astral and All Registers / Power of Two: Live at the Ulrichsberg Festival, May 10th 2002 (2002 [2020], Discus Music) B+(***)
  79. Cecil Taylor: Conversations With Tony Oxley (2008 [2018], Jazzwerkstatt) A-
  80. Cecil Taylor [Tony Oxley]: Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs (2008 [2010], Triple Point) B+(***)
  81. Cecil Taylor [Tony Oxley]: Birdland, Neuburg 2011 (2011 [2020], Fundacja Sluchaj) A-
  82. Cecil Taylor New Unit: Words and Music: The Last Bandstand (2016 [2026], Fundacja Słuchaj) A-

Number of A-listed albums: 20 (of 59 rated).

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