The Cecil Taylor Quartet and the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory – At Newport '57 [USED LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop I've been thinking (and talking

I've been thinking (and talking a lot of shit) about work and art making recently and I’m really into stuff where the persons found some way to include their day job in their art in a way that sort of re-purposes the skills

including the OU Revue and Klankteksten (released by the Stedelijk Museum in 1970 to accompany their exhibition of concrete poetry)

This unreleased live recording from 2006 proves that the oh-so-fluid project has always had an ear for true sonic disturbance and devout expanding of the consciousness

and in 2021 a live recording was released by a UK label for distribution to good acclaim

The Cecil Taylor Quartet and the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory – At Newport '57 [USED LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop I've been thinking (and talkingearly live set alongside the jazz lab, with steve lacy on sax! askew post bop forms nudging in the direction of the free, a nice cockle warmer. Verve, 196x