Mary Lou Williams with Cecil Taylor - Embraced
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Artist: Mary Lou Williams with Cecil TaylorEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1995-06-15
Music Label: Pablo
Soundtracks:
- Lord Is Heavy (A Spiritual)
- Fandangle (Ragtime)
- Blues Never Left Me
- K. C. 12th Street (Kansas City Swing)
- Good Ole Boogie
- Basic Chords (Bop Changes on the Blues)
- Ayizan
- Chorus Sud
- Back to the Blues
- I Can't Get Started
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Music Review: More like Mary Lou Williams Versus Cecil Taylor
Rating: 1 Stars
If this wasn't a live album and you could use the balance knob to completely isolate the two pianists, you might have a couple of pretty good solo albums here. Listening to them together, though, it's a complete mess, with neither player compromising his or her respective style a whit. I can understand CT's approach, because his entire career has been based on listening to the other musicians and responding in his own unique language. However, for Williams to go on playing her standard history of jazz program without making the slightest attempt to acknowledge Taylor's contribution in her playing is utterly absurd. Give it a miss.
Description of Embraced
There are many who claim this 1977 live date doesn't (and could never) really work, but screw them. Williams, the early bop pianist whose work had long reflected a gospel influence that allowed her '70s LP (on her own Mary label) to sound contemporary, plays spirituals her way. Taylor, the all-too-human god of free jazz, plays spirituals his way. Use your ears and you'll hear two very complete histories of jazz colliding simultaneously. Let your ear wander between the two and you'll hear a generous (if slightly pedagogical) Democracy of the Ear that band-leaders such as Wynton Marsalis pitifully lack. --D. StraussGeneral CDs
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