5 April 2008

Cecil Taylor - Yoshi's, December 1998


Thanks to glmlr for this music - three complete consecutive nights of Cecil Taylor (solo, and in quartet and sextet) at Yoshi's, Oakland, California in December 1998. The music is outstanding.

Details are:-

4th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor Quartet 
 
Cecil Taylor - piano 
Joe Locke - vibraphone 
Santi Debriano - bass 
Jackson Krall - drums 

1. Set I (60.34)
2. Set II (65.16)

5th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor Sextet / Quartet 

Cecil Taylor - piano/voice 
Joe Locke - vibraphone 
Santi Debriano - bass 
Jackson Krall - drums 
Oluyemi Thomas - bass clarinet (set I) 
Ijeoma Thomas - voice (set I) 

1. Set I/1 (voices intro) (3.57)
2. Set I/2 (14.16)
3. Set I/3 (25.10)
4. Set I/4 (18.46)

5. Set II/1 (24.45)
6. Set II/2 (12.55)

6th December, 1998

Cecil Taylor - Solo, Quartet, Sextet

Cecil Taylor - piano, voice
Joe Locke - vibraphone
Santi Debriano - bass
Jackson Krall - drums

Olyemi Thomas - bass clarinet
Ijeoma Thomas - voice

1. Cecil Taylor solo (16.30)
2. Jackson Krall drum solo (2.53)
3. Santi Debriano bass solo (7.02)
4. Quartet - 1 (18.52)
5. Quartet - 2 (27.09)
6. Quartet - 3 (13.43)
7. Sextet - 1 (60.22)
8. Sextet - 2 (30.09)
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30 comments:

  1. Tantris5 April 2008 at 08:54:00 CEST

    MP3 @ 320 (flac's would take too long to upload, I'm afraid);

    4th December
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104915524/CTYoshi041298.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104917863/CTYoshi041298.part2.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104919717/CTYoshi041298.part3.rar

    5th December
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104924901/CTYoshi051298.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104958567/CTYoshi051298.part2.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104966699/CTYoshi051298.part3.rar

    6th December
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104968105/CTYoshi061298.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104970451/CTYoshi061298.part2.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104972148/CTYoshi061298.part3.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/104973650/CTYoshi061298.part4.rar

    Enjoy!

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  2. BondiUrbano6 April 2008 at 05:11:00 CEST

    Tantris: Este es el post más impresionante que recuerdo. Gracias por compartirlo. En serio, pocas veces se publican cosas asi. Ojalá puedas continuar en esta línea.

    Abrazo desde Buenos Aires,
    Bondiurbano

    http://www.jazzero.com.ar/

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  3. sambeck20017 April 2008 at 17:01:00 CEST

    Thank you, glmlr and Tantris

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  4. Rod Warner7 April 2008 at 23:05:00 CEST

    thanks! Didn't know this set...

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  5. Anonymous8 April 2008 at 02:24:00 CEST

    First shout out on this goes to Glmlr -- Good God, what other jewels are you sitting on? The mind reels.

    There is never, ever enough Cecil. And I hate to say it, but the man probably won't be with us that much longer. It's always wonderful to see new wrinkles in what he does, beause if there's anything underapreciated about him, it's his range.

    Thank you, gents!

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  6. Anonymous8 April 2008 at 20:22:00 CEST

    Thank you Slothrop. Indeed there are more goodies in the cupboard!

    I've been hoping for many weeks that either Sotise or Tantris will up the CT Unit (i.e. with Lyons & Cyrille) "Live in Berlin" 6th November 1975 set, which I've sent to each of them. It's a cracker - a sort of update on "Akisakila". I'd hate to see it collect dust!

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  7. Tantris8 April 2008 at 22:56:00 CEST

    OK, here is the CT Unit set that glmlr has kindly provided;

    MP3@320
    http://rapidshare.com/files/105942933/CTBerlin06Nov75.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/105951579/CTBerlin06Nov75.part2.rar

    and here is another (!) from glmlr - a marvellous solo concert from Cologne on 28th August, 1988 - i.e. just a few weeks after the watershed Berlin festival;

    FLAC
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92430894/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part1.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92437596/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part2.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92440738/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part3.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92444074/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part4.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92453292/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part5.rar
    http://rapidshare.com/files/92455388/CT_-_Cologne_-_28.8.88.part6.rar

    The number of downloads is quite high for the Yoshi set, and it would be great to get some feedback on what you think - it's unusual to find Cecil in the company of a vibe player!

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  8. SOTISE9 April 2008 at 01:30:00 CEST

    firstly ,thank you for these.

    its also very unusual to hear santi debriano playing with cecil, in fact ive never come across him in this area of the music at all , he's generally associated with hard bop.

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  9. SOTISE9 April 2008 at 01:31:00 CEST

    the berlin trio set with lyons and cyrille coming up! soon im ripping it now.

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  10. Rod Warner9 April 2008 at 13:17:00 CEST

    ... just had to come back and say WOW! Thanks again for some brilliant music - been playing the quartet with Joe Locke over and over...

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  11. Anonymous9 April 2008 at 20:32:00 CEST

    Wonderful, gentlemen. Glmlr -- you certainly know how to respond graciously to a compliment.

    Sadly, life circumstances these days conspire to limit the amount of time I have to listen closely to much of anything. Like Tantris, I'm curious about the Quartet and Sextet configurations, and the vibes player. If anybody's still interested in a few days, I'll share my thoughts and see what everyone else thinks.

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  12. ghostrancedance20 April 2008 at 07:40:00 CEST

    Many thanks! I've been aching to hear what Joe Locke sounds like with Cecil for a long time. Now I'll know...

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  13. hulaboy5 March 2009 at 11:08:00 CET

    Mahalo!

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  14. Tomo el chef13 April 2010 at 17:51:00 CEST

    Ay.....Its not found...
    Que lastima!

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  15. Anonymous15 June 2011 at 19:12:00 CEST

    The flac addresses for Rapidshare don't seem to be working. Have the files been deleted? If so, a real pity as this would be marvelous. I think there's a taster in the CT DVD "All of the Notes" where part of these sets is shown. Colin

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  16. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth31 March 2014 at 07:32:00 CEST

    This is my greedy week - please someone help with these recordings as well!

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  17. mew232 April 2014 at 21:28:00 CEST

    New links for Cecil Taylor at Yoshi's, December 1988
    (repack of the original files)

    http://5p686a8p22.1fichier.com/
    http://goe32kzg5m.1fichier.com/
    http://5cc9u9g65e.1fichier.com/

    and Cecil Taylor solo, Cologne 1988, as a single archive

    http://v9jkonjejw.1fichier.com/

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  18. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth3 April 2014 at 14:19:00 CEST

    Great!! Thank you mew23 for your help.
    Also my appreciation for your 'extra' Taylor Concert.
    Vielen Dank... :-)

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  19. martin3 April 2014 at 15:32:00 CEST

    Thank you mew23, this is wonderful, marvellous and incredible. It would be even better if I could get it to work. I click the download button and all that happens is that the page rewrites itself.

    Please help.

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  20. mew233 April 2014 at 21:44:00 CEST

    onxidlib, thanks for the flowers :-)

    martin,
    sorry, I have no idea why the download doesn't work for you - maybe a browser issue? Using Firefox or IE I have no problems starting a download from 1fichier.

    However I forgot to mention that here is a minor problem with the Cologne files. Flac reports an error while decoding the second file so you have to use the -F option on the flac command line or "decode through errors" with the
    flac frontend for windows. You can hear a glitch at 21:57 min that was already reported after the original post at:
    http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2008/04/cecil-taylor-
    jimmy-lyons-andrew-cyrille.html?showComment=
    1213011360000#c4588685239700842812

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  21. martin4 April 2014 at 00:06:00 CEST

    Sorry, my fault, I hadn't clicked the 'Secure SSL version' button first.

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  22. chrisc4 April 2014 at 17:51:00 CEST

    Thank you Mew23 for the re-up.

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  23. lee4 April 2014 at 19:40:00 CEST

    Mew23, I can't thank you enough for bringing these back. I lost the files years ago and have really missed these shows. One of my favorite CT performances!

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  24. martin6 April 2014 at 18:21:00 CEST

    Hello, mew23, me again, a bucketful of thanks for these. Re. the glitch, as far as I can hear, it hasn't subtracted any sound but only added a space - which can be deleted. So I did.

    Is this OK? (If not, I can take it off)

    http://www.gamefront.com/files/24158153/cecilunglitch.zip

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  25. matt w12 April 2014 at 04:40:00 CEST

    Thanks for the re-up! I've only had time to listen to a little, but it's interesting to hear Locke with Taylor.

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  26. Anonymous14 December 2014 at 16:35:00 CET

    man, the Live in Cologne set is incredible -- it really deserves its own standalone post. hard to argue that there was a better year for CT than 1988. anyway, thanks.

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  27. Javier Roz14 May 2015 at 12:12:00 CEST

    Thanks, many thanks mew23 for re-up these wonderful recordings of a true master!

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  28. DRONSZ27 January 2020 at 20:40:00 CET

    Could somebody please reup the FLAC files?
    Thanks!

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  29. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth18 February 2021 at 08:37:00 CET

    Here a reformatting of mew23 reup from some time ago:

    New links for Cecil Taylor at Yoshi's, December 1988
    (repack of the original files)

    https://1fichier.com/?5p686a8p22

    https://1fichier.com/?goe32kzg5m

    https://1fichier.com/?5cc9u9g65e

    and Cecil Taylor solo, Cologne 1988, as a single archive

    https://1fichier.com/?v9jkonjejw

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  30. DRONSZ9 March 2021 at 09:35:00 CET

    Thanks a lot. The music is great, but if somebody have the original lossless files... This set deserves FLAC, not mp3.

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