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New York City R&B

Cecil Taylor

Recorded	Jan 9-10, 1961
Label	Barnaby Records
Released	1961
Personnel	9 credited players
Discogs	master 176953

The record

A stacked early-60s date that finds Taylor's roiling piano logic pushed against a genuinely swinging horn section -- Terry, Rudd, Shepp, Lacy, Davis -- with two drummers splitting duties. Barnaby's later reissue title oversells the "R&B" angle, but the session captures Taylor at a real hinge point between hard bop lineage and the free language he'd soon fully claim.

Session personnel

Charles Davis — baritone saxophone
Buell Neidlinger — bass
Billy Higgins — drums
Denis Charles — drums
Cecil Taylor — piano
Steve Lacy — soprano saxophone
Archie Shepp — tenor saxophone
Roswell Rudd — trombone
Clark Terry — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.

1972	Barnaby Records · KZ 31035 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file
1972	Barnaby Records
1972	CBS · S 64723 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Barnaby Records · KZ 31035 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1981	Jazz Man · JAZ 5032 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1986	Candid · GJS 9017 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1986	Candid · CS 9017 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1987	Candid · 32JDC-113 — CD, Album, Reissue
1988	Candid · CCD 79017 — CD, Album, Reissue
1988	Candid · CCD 79017 — CD, Album, Reissue
1989	Candid · CCD 79017 — CD, Album, Reissue
1997	Candid · TECW-20595 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
2018	Doxy · ACV2106 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Clear
—	Candid · CCD 79017 — CD, Album, Reissue