BLACK ARTISTS GROUP / CECIL TAYLOR UNIT "JAZZ HARMONIE / CHATEAUVALLON, 1973"

Two more videos from the French TV -



BLACK ARTISTS GROUP  "JAZZ HARMONIE, 1973"

Baikida Carroll, trumpet, english horn, percussion
Oliver Lake, tenor saxophone & soprano saxophone, flute, percussion
Joseph Bowie, trombone, congas
Jimmy Jones, guitar
Donald Robinson, drums

Performing three selections: "Suite," "Rhythm," and "Harlem Color.


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CECIL TAYLOR UNIT "CHATEAUVALLON, 1973"

Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Andrew Cyrille, drums

Recorded at Amphitheatre, Chateauvallon, France on August 24, 1973.



Both footages directed by Jean-Pierre Manquillet

CECIL TAYLOR - BLUE NOTES - MANFRED SCHOOF - MISHA MENGELBERG - THEO LOEVENDIE "FRANCE - ANTIBES+" (1964-69)

This is not music or more exactly it is music but with footage from the respective concerts.
Culled from the French TV.

Among others we have the first concert of the Blue Notes in Europe, just arriving from South-Africa. After the concert and some weeks playing in Antibes at the beach (and elsewhere) they embarked to Zürich were they got offered Dollar Brand's place at the Cafe Africana.

The movie (~ 1:40) is not in high definition but the quality is easily good enough to enjoy these concerts and in case of Taylor's Unit something rather special.


- Lìnvité du dimanche 1969 -Fondation Maeght  (Cecil Taylor Unit)
with Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Andrew Cyrille

- Blue Notes - Antibes 1964
with Nikele Mokaye, Louis Moholo, Mongezi Feza, Chris McGregor, Johnny Mbizo Dyani and Dudu Pukwana

- Manfred Schoof - Antibes 1967
with Mani Neumeier, Jaki Liebezeit, Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall and Alexander von Schlippenbach

Misha Mengelberg - Antibes 1967
with Han Bennink, Willem Breuker, Maarten Altena

- Theo Loevendie - Antibes 1969
with Willem van Manen, Nedley Elstak, John Engels, Martin Van Duynhoven, Joop Mastenbroek, Hans Dulfer, Maarten Altena

PAUL MURPHY "CLOUDBURST" (M.A.D., 1983)

R.I.P - DEWEY JOHNSON 06.11.1939 - 27.06.2018

Obituary

Dewey Johnson, trumpet
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Karen Borca, bassoon
Maryanne Driscoll, piano, voice
Paul Murphy, drums

1. Fantasy     14:52
2. Voices      04:16
3. Calling     04:06
4. Open        12:05
5. Cloudburst  03:33

Live two-track recording at RCA Studio A, New York on February 25, 1983 by Paul Goodman.

M.A.D. MURPHY RECORDS MM2

(vinyl rip)

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT & SOLO "AKISAKILA" & "LONO" (TRIO RECORDS, 1973)

Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Andrew Cyrille, drums

1. Bulu Akisakila Kutala (vol.1)  61:06
2. Bulu Akisakila Kutala (vol.2)  20:38

Lono (solo):
3. Choral Of Voice (Elision) 7:19
4. Lono 9:23
5. Asapk In Ame - 1st Layer Part Of Indent 7:07
6. Indent - 1/2 Of First Layer, 2nd 1/2 Of 1st Layer  7:15


Trio recorded May 22, 1973 at Koseinenkin Dai-Hall, Tokyo.
Solo recorded May 29, 1973 at Lino Hall, Tokyo.


Source: Konnex KCD 5039 + KCD 5040

JIMMY LYONS ‎– PUSH PULL (HAT HUT RECORDS, 1979)

AB. Mary Mary

C1. After You Left A

C2. After You Left B

D.  Tortuga

E.  Push Pull

F.  Breakout

Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone

Hayes Burnett, bass

Karen Borca, bassoon

Munner Bernard Fennell, cello

Roger Blank, drums

Recorded live, May 6, 1978 at the Collective for Living Cinema NY.

Hat Hut Records ‎– Y/Z/Z

LP Rip

JIMMY LYONS / SUNNY MURRAY ‎– WHAT TO DO ABOUT (HAT HUT RECORDS, 1981)

C. What To Do About #1 And #2



Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
John Lindberg, bass
Sunny Murray, drums


Recorded live at Jazz Festival Willisau on Saturday August 30, 1980.

Hat Hut Records ‎– TWENTYONE (2R21)

LP Rip

JIMMY LYONS QUINTET "WKCR, 1975"

Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Karen Borca, bassoon
Raphé Malik, trumpet
Hayes Burnett, bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums

1. radio speaker  00:23
2. unknown title  35:11
3. unknown title  20:18
4. radio speaker  02:12



Recorded at WKCR studio, New York, New York on March 5, 1975.

CECIL TAYLOR "STUDENT STUDIES" (BYG, 1966)

This album was first released as an untitled 2LP set on the Japanese BYG label in 1973.
The first CD edition on Affinity was titled "Student Studies". Later Black Lion issued another CD edition entitled "The Great Paris Concert".
The original cover is included in the files...
...and I have added two pieces from (most probably) the same session - 40 minutes more from this excellent group.


Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Alan Silva, bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums

1. Student Studies (Part 1) 16:00
2. Student Studies (Part 2) 11:00
3. Amplitude  19:44
4. Niggle Feuigle 12:06
5. A Bright Light (Lover And Love) 21:13
6. Over There 19:20

Recorded in Paris at Maison De L'ORTF, Salle 105 on November 30, 1966 (Broadcast 'ORTF').

Tracks 1-4 originally released on BYG YX4003/4004.
Source for the rip BLACK LION BLCD760201.
Tracks 5 + 6 not released in any form.

Note: tracks 5+6 possibly recorded on December 1, 1966 at the Grand Amphitheatre de la Faculte de Droit, Paris, France.
Note 2: track 5 also titled "Bread, Wine, Lover & Love".
Note 3: alternate album title "THE GREAT PARIS CONCERT".

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT "SPRING OF TWO BLUE J's" (UNIT CORE, 1973)

 See here for some background with great cover scans - also you may find still some mp3 with more music from the concert there.

Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Sirone, bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums


1. Spring Of Two Blue-J's (part 1)  16:05
2. Spring Of Two Blue-J's (part 2)  21:24

Recorded on 4 November 1973 at Town Hall, NYC.

UNIT CORE RECORDS 30551

(this rip from the Jazz View 008 CD - which was a bootleg)

Note: new links for a rip of the LP added - Thank you G!!!!

Cecil Taylor Trio - Live in Orvieto '75 [New Links]

The final concert (the fourth of the evening!) of the third edition
of Umbria Jazz, maybe not the best recording but, the Music is
fantastic ...

Rec. live at "Umbria Jazz", Orvieto, Italy, on August 1, 1975
(mics recording)

Cecil Taylor,piano
Jimmy Lyons,alto sax
Andrew Cyrille,drums

1. Improvisation [inc.] (59:10)

excerpt

CECIL TAYLOR JAZZ UNIT "THE EARLY UNIT 1962" (INGO , 1962)

A recording from a seminal phase in Cecil Taylor's career.
The sound is really not the best - it's a bootleg!
But who I am to complain - in fact it is one of three known recordings from this excellent group - here in a rare early setting with a bassist.


CECIL TAYLOR JAZZ UNIT "THE EARLY UNIT 1962"

Cecil Taylor, piano
Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone
Kurt Lindgren, double bass
Sunny Murray, drums

1. Spontaneous Improvisation (C.T.) 14:20
2. Flamingo (Gruoya-Anderson) 14:09

Recorded at the Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden on October 14, 1962.


INGO sixteen

(lp-rip)

Cecil Taylor Trio - Live in Alassio '75

An year of many great concerts that 1975 for the C.T.U., but no
official recordings, so we have to be pleased with the audience
recordings or with some rare broadcast like that posted by sotise
here.

Rec. live in Alassio, Italy, on September 6, 1975
(mics recording)

Cecil Taylor,piano
Jimmy Lyons,alto saxophone
Andrew Cyrille,drums

1. Untitled Improvisation (1:26:29)

Jimmy Lyons Quartet - Live in Rome '80

Jimmy Lyons led this quartet, with his wife Karen, for ten years
until the untimely death (1986), even so the official recordings
are very limited : i hope you'll enjoy this addition.
(Recorded by "Ilario")

Rec. live in Rome, Italy, on September 25, 1980
(mics recording)

Jimmy Lyons,alto saxophone
Karen Borca,bassoon
Jay Oliver,bass
Paul Murphy,drums

1. Track #1 (19:52)
2. Track #2 (22:55)
3. Track #3 (13:43)
4. Track #4 (29:39)

Total Time 1:26:10

Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons

I've noticed that blogger chums Serviceton and Sotise have started resurrecting old BYG Actuel records, so I thought I might as well get in on the game myself. This was posted on the Church#9 blog a couple of years ago, then in the mp3 format, so as to justify resposting it, I've upgraded it to the lossless flac format.

This was Jimmy Lyons' first record as a leader and with him were two other members of the Cecil Taylor group, Alan Silva on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums. In for Cecil on this date is trumpeter extraordinaire Lester Bowie, a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and a Paris resident at the time.

Stylistically this is lodged somewhere between bop mode and excursions into freer areas. Only two tracks per side, the second low-key, low-tempo chill outs after the more upbeat first tracks on each side. "However" stays basically in a bop mode and both "Premonitions" and "My You" are as indicated are somber pieces coming off the peaked performances starting each side. However, it's the title track which is the real clincher here with Jimmy Lyons delivering one of those solos which have to go down in history as something else. Starting off modulating the prhrases, he builds up into a frenzy of shrieks, but stays in control all the while. Lester Young has to jump in at the top and keep riding the wave until it subsides in a Cyrille drum solo and things are gliding into the quieter territory of "Premonitions". Truly astounding!

1. Other Afternoons
2. Premonitions
3. However
4. My You

Jimmy Lyons - alto sax
Lester Bowie - trumpet
Alan Silva - bass
Andrew Cyrille - drums

Recorded 15 August 1969 in Paris.

As the pieces more or less run together, I've ripped the A and B sides as two contiguous tracks. Scans are included in the attached files.

Enjoy! One of the seminal BYG albums!

CECIL TAYLOR UNIT - LIVE IN STUTTGART 1966/1969

Number 9 from I Forgot Clifford. I had 3 Cecil Taylor posts and all 3 had many downloads. This was the most rare of the 3 posted. Cecil Taylor Quartet on 2 dates in Stuttgart. 

This stuff comes from Blue Mark Music produced by Zooey Records. 

A soundboard recording from October 16, 1966 

 1. Conquistador Second

2.  Amplitude Words 

Cecil Taylor - piano, Jimmy Lyons - alto sax, Alan Silva - double bass, Andrew Cyrille - drums 

And from November 10, 1969 

3. Fragments of a dedication to Duke Ellington 

Cecil Taylor - piano, Jimmy Lyons - alto sax, Sam Rivers - tenor sax, Andrew Cyrille - drums

David Murray Octet (with Jimmy Lyons) - Live NYC 1984

Prolific artist David Murray has frequently led octets consisting of many distinguished musicians.

This one intrigued me particularly because of the inclusion of Jimmy Lyons. I wasn't aware that he'd ever played with Murray, and found it interesting to hear Lyons in company with different musicians than those on his more well-known recordings.

This is a very polished performance. You'd think the guys performed together permanently. It must be tribute to Murray to bring such a band together and function so well. There's a particularly fine version of Murray's classic "Last of the Hipmen".

Details:

July 1984

Joe Papp's Public Theatre, New York

Olu Dara [Charles Jones III] (tpt, cornet)

Lawrence "Butch" Morris (cornet)

Dick Griffith (tb)

Jimmy Lyons (as)

David Murray (ts, bcl)

Anthony Davis (p)

Wilbur Morris (b)

Steve McCall (d)

1 Introduction 0:23

2 Ming (D. Murray) 4:32

3 Last of the Hipmen (D. Murray) 19:52

4 Home (D. Murray) 5:30

5 Dewey's Circle (D. Murray) 10:19

6 Choctaw Blues (D. Murray) 8:15

Broadcast in late 1984 on American Public Radio.

Thanks to plosin for seeding this on dime.
Flac and MP3 links in comments.

Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille- live at berlin jazz days 6th nov 1975 , FLAC, and LAME (NEW LINKS)

This is a very special concert, the finest cecil taylor roio ive ever heard .

Its simply incredible both as a performance ,and in terms of the recording quality.

From the most under documented period in cecils career.


Even a cursory comparison with “akisakila”(the only official release by this magnificent edition of taylor's unit) will reveal I think that this is of equal ,if not superior sound quality!

many thanks to the original taper/archiver of this stunning set, and virtual sonic hugs to black forrest the dime seeder.

Exhilarating stuff.. I can’t recommend it stongly enough.

Thanks also to glmlr who passed it on to me some months ago, and has rightly insisted on it being shared here.


cecil taylor trio
live at berliner jazztage , philharmonie berlin (d)

1) untitled improvisation 83.00

cecil taylor- pno
jimmy lyons -alto sax
andrew cyrille- drums .

Enjoy!!!!



Ps, can anyone provide an upload of a recent dime seed of roscoe mitchell’s creative orchestra featuring Anthony Braxton.
If anyone can help out, we here on this board would be most appreciative.

Jimmy Lyons, Oliver Lake, Henry Threadgill - Live Nickelsdorf 1980.

This is somewhat of a curiosity. The 3 great altoists improvising together, without rhythm section. I know nothing about this concert apart from basic details:-

1980-August-16
Nickelsdorf, Austria,
Konfrontationen 1980

Oliver Lake,as
Jimmy Lyons,as
Henry Threadgill,as

It is just a single piece of about 30 minutes. Thanks go to jazzrita for seeding. I'm not sure whether it is an FM broadcast or an audience boot, but the sound quality is very good. If anyone knows anything at all about this trio (was it a one-off gig ?) then I'd be pleased to hear from them. See if you can distinguish which player is which. I can make out Lyons's distinctive style, but can't tell between the other two.

I've put up an mp3 link. I have it in flac, which I'll upload if there is enough interest.

Link in comments.

FLAC VERSION NOW AVAILABLE - SEE NEW COMMENT

JIMMY LYONS-featuring KAREN BORCA- RIFFS RECORDED IN 1980 AT DREHER PARIS, FLAC AND LAME

heres an album i like by a quartet which was an active working unit for some years.
jimmy lyons of course was a mainstay of cecil taylor's units for 25 or so years.
and im sure that fans who have the ayler box ,are already familiar with the high level of creative empathy produced by this group.

heres a short ,almost curt review from amg
by Scott Yanow
For one of his very infrequent recordings outside of the realm of Cecil Taylor, altoist Jimmy Lyons teams up with the talented jazz bassoonist Karen Borca, bassist Jay Oliver and drummer Paul Murphy for lengthy and rather adventurous versions of "Theme" and "Riffs #1/II" plus the brief "Riffs #1/I" which serves as a prelude to the longer "Riffs." It is always intriguing to hear Lyons stretching out without a piano and this set helped make listeners aware of Borca's brilliant playing on the rarely utilized bassoon.

its hard to go wrong with jimmy lyons, unfortunately on this the recording balance is far from perfect, the sound quality is at times muddy , though its certainly better than that achieved on the mamoth 3 lp set push- pull which i regret having sold because of the poor sound quality.
if anyone has that please post it either here or elsewhere.

this wont dissapoint any lyons fans, despite its technical shortcomings.
buy jimmy lyons and karen borca discs
its an easily aquired taste thats well worth cultivating!

CHECK COMMENTS FOR LINKS.

MANY THANKS TO YANN ONCE AGAIN FOR HIS HELP WITH THE MOST RECENT BATCH OF VINYL RIP'S