Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)

Live album by

Cecil Taylor

Released

1989

Recorded

July 2, 1988

Cecil Taylor chronology

The Hearth
(1989)

Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
(1989)

Remembrance
(1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) is a live album by Cecil Taylor with the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988, as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.^[3]

Critical reception

The AllMusic review by "Blue" Gene Tyranny states "This set is interesting primarily to hear European musicians interpret Taylor's kinesthetic directing...mostly an intense density of "free playing" (actually following specific internalized instructions and images) with almost everyone going on different gestures at once, with slow unison melodies emerging from the environment".^[4] Describing the album as “deeply moving”, The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings says it is “a monumental event, the colossal sonic impact tempered by Taylor’s own unflinching, instinctual control and a grasp of dynamics and dramatic possibility which is breathtaking.”^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.

"Involution/Evolution" – 58:51
"Weight-Breath-Sounding Trees" – 63:48

- Recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988

Personnel

Cecil Taylor – piano, voice
Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko – trumpet
Peter van Bergen – tenor saxophone
Peter Brötzmann – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, tarogato
Hans Koch – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Evan Parker – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Louis Sclavis – soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Hannes Bauer, Christian Radovan, Wolter Wierbos – trombone
Martin Mayes – French horn
Gunter Hampel – vibraphone
Tristan Honsinger – cello
Peter Kowald, William Parker – double bass
Han Bennink – drums

References

^ AllMusic Review
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1381-1382. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Cecil Taylor sessionography Archived 2012-09-20 at the Wayback Machine accessed 3 September 2009
^ Tyranny, G. AllMusic Review accessed 3 September 2009

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Discography
Studio albums	Jazz Advance Looking Ahead! Stereo Drive Love for Sale The World of Cecil Taylor Air Cell Walk for Celeste Jumpin' Punkins New York City R&B Unit Structures Conquistador! Cecil Taylor Unit 3 Phasis Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Chinampas In Florescence Momentum Space
Live albums	At Newport Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come Student Studies Praxis The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor Indent Akisakila Solo Spring of Two Blue J's Silent Tongues Dark to Themselves Air Above Mountains Live in the Black Forest One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye Historic Concerts It Is in the Brewing Luminous Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! The Eighth Garden Iwontunwonsi Amewa For Olim Olu Iwa Live in Bologna Live in Vienna Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil In East Berlin Regalia The Hearth Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) Remembrance Pleistozaen Mit Wasser Spots, Circles, and Fantasy Legba Crossing Erzulie Maketh Scent Leaf Palm Hand Looking (Berlin Version) Solo Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio Looking (Berlin Version) Corona Celebrated Blazons 2 Ts for a Lovely T CT: The Dance Project Double Holy House Nailed Melancholy The Tree of Life Always a Pleasure The Light of Corona Almeda Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 Lifting the Bandstand Algonquin Incarnation The Willisau Concert The Owner of the River Bank All the Notes Taylor/Dixon/Oxley The Last Dance
Compilations	Mixed

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Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)

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Critical reception

Track listing

Personnel

References