CECIL TAYLOR QUARTET Looking Ahead CONTEMPORARY7562 DG

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  CECIL TAYLOR QUARTET Looking Ahead! CONTEMPORARY7562 DG A MINT MINUS ORIGINAL LP ON CONTEMPORARY S7562

FROM 1959 A RARE STEREO DEEP GROOVE PRESSING WITH BLACK LABEL

PRODUCED BY NAT HENTOFF AND RECORDED IN NEW YORK CITY AT THE NOLA PENTHOUSE STUDIOS ON JUNE 9TH, 1958 BY TOMMY NOLA AND LEWIS MERRITT

WITH AN ORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY INNER SLEEVE AS SHOWN(WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE ORIGINAL SHIPPED WITH THE LP)

WITH CECIL ON PIANO, EARL GRIFFITH ON VIBRA-HARP, BUELL NEIDLINGER ON BASS AND DENNIS CHARLES ON DRUMS

6 TRACKS INCLUDE LUYAH! THE GLORIOUS STEP, AFRICAN VIOLETS, OF WHAT, WALLERING, TOLL, EXCURSION ON A WOBBLY RAIL

COVER STOCK WITH SOME LIGHT RUB WEAR AND OVERALL LIGHT AGE DISCOLORATION. A SMALL INKED NUMBER ON BOTTOM BACK RIGHT. CORNERS WITH TINY ROUGH SPOTS ON POINT WITH SMALL OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON THE POINT.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE ON AN UNUSUALLY PRISTINE VINYL BLANK WITH HIGH LUSTER THAT APPEARS TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT, SIDE ONE WITH A SMALL RUB SCUFF MARK IN THE LAST TRACK IN THE THE 5 O'CLOCK POSITION.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Brian Olewnick
One of Cecil Taylor's earliest recordings, Looking Ahead! does just that while still keeping several toes in the tradition. It's an amazing document of a talent fairly straining at the reins, a meteor about to burst onto the jazz scene and render it forever changed. With Earl Griffith on vibes, Taylor uses an instrumentation he would return to occasionally much later on, one that lends an extra percussive layer to the session, emphasizing the new rhythmic attacks he was experimenting with. Griffith sounds as though he might have been a conceptual step or two behind the other three but, in the context of the time, this may have served to make the music a shade more palatable to contemporary tastes. But the seeds are clearly planted and one can hear direct hints of Taylor's music to come, all the way to 1962 at least (the Nefertiti trio with Sunny Murray). Pieces like "Luyah! The Glorious Step" and "Of What" are so fragmented (in a traditional sense) and so bristlingly alive that one can understand Whitney Baillett's observation of crowds at a Taylor concert fidgeting "as if the ground beneath had suddenly become unbearably hot." The contributions of bassist Buell Neidlinger and drummer Dennis Charles cannot be understated; they breathe with Taylor as one unit and appear to be utterly in sync with his ideas. When the pianist edges into his solo on "Excursion on a Wobbly Rail," it's as though he's meeting the tradition head on, shaking hands and then rocketing off into the future. Looking Ahead! is a vital recording from the nascence of one of the towering geniuses of modern music and belongs in any jazz fan's collection.

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