Cecil Taylor Unit – Fragments

A Free Jazz monster rises from obscurity after decades. This previously unreleased live recording from the Paris Jazz Festival in 1969 presents, across three LPs, two different versions of Cecil Taylor’s monumental composition »Fragments Of A Dedication To Duke Ellington«. Pianist Cecil Taylor, saxophonists Sam Rivers and Jimmy Lyons, and drummer Andrew Cyrille combine intense, chaotic high-energy improvisation with composed structures, sounding in the process like a gigantic noise orchestra.