CECIL TAYLOR - Three Classic Albums (2 CDs)

AVID Jazz presents three classic Cecil Taylor albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Jazz Advance”, “Looking Ahead”, “World Of Cecil Taylor” plus two tracks from “Love For Sale”Cecil Taylor hit the jazz world hard in 1956 with his first album “Jazz Advance”! With signs of sounds to come he is joined by Buell Neidlinger on bass, Dennis Charles on drums and Steve Lacy on soprano sax. May we suggest you refer to the liner notes on “Looking Ahead” to get a sense of where Cecil Taylor was at during his difficult introduction into the jazz world. As he maintains he had not been atonal in any of his recordings to date and it is also noted that live gigs had been hard to find due to his perceived “difficulty”. His music was gathering very mixed reactions with some, like British critic Bennie Green, suggesting that his sound may not even be music let alone jazz music! Another critic a little more generously quoting “his way may very well