Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil

Cecil Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Leo Records UK
• ASIN: B0000281V2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Little Too Self-Indulgent, August 9, 2002

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Christopher Forbes "weirdears" (Brooklyn,, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil (Audio CD)

This is not my favorite Taylor album...by a long shot. Tzotzil-Mummers-Tzotzil is an extended studio piece with one of Taylor's typical long extended group freak-outs surrounded by some pretty self-indulgent "poetry"...really more spoken word soundscapes.

The music during the group sessions is quite good...good enough for four stars actually. But it isn't indispensible Cecil Taylor. For that I'd get the Blue Note albums of the 60s, or the Cecil Taylor Unit work of the early 80's when Ronald Shannon Jackson was the drummer. And the spoken word soundscapes wear out their welcome quite fast really. The way that the CD is tracked, it is impossible to skip over these sections so I find that, if I'm in the mood for Taylor, I choose other albums to listen to over this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Uncompromising out-jazz, December 4, 2009

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Warren Rhodesia "armchair ethnomusiconcologist" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil (Audio CD)

An excellent album. Perhaps not in Taylor's "best" category, but wonderful, expressive, sometimes explosive, music. Maybe a bit much for some folks, and yes, has some less than brilliant moments. To be expected, however, when you're exploring musical terra incognito and you've abandoned the cliches and fallback tricks and just go all-out for something new, authentic and in-the-moment. This is such a recording.