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5.0 out of 5 stars
Uncompromising out-jazz
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...
Published on December 4, 2009 by Warren Rhodesia
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A Little Too Self-Indulgent
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...
Published on August 9, 2002 by Christopher Forbes
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Little Too Self-Indulgent, August 9, 2002
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Uncompromising out-jazz, December 4, 2009
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.
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