Andi Chorley<p>Air is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded for the Candid label in October 1960. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles and Sunny Murray.</p><p>A review at AllMusic states: "Avant-garde icon Cecil Taylor has a superfluity of gems in his catalogue, but his recordings from the early 1960s have a special significance in that they represent the pianist's transition from a traditional post-bop approach to his more abstract stylings. Lyrical, bluesy, and driven by bold improvisation, 1960's Air is an excellent example of Taylor's early work. Along with saxophonist Archie Shepp (who sits in on two numbers) and a sharp, tight-knit rhythm section, Taylor can be heard stretching the jazz canvas of the era, forming the radical vocabulary he would master on landmark albums like 1966's Unit Structures.."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ceciltaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ceciltaylor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/freejazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freejazz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/archieshepp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archieshepp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sunnymurray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunnymurray</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/dennischarles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dennischarles</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlELGEMEmk&list=PLaBIVksB98Ajd4OgGd-FHXAtBNb7oUOSm&index=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=iqlELGEMEm</span><span class="invisible">k&list=PLaBIVksB98Ajd4OgGd-FHXAtBNb7oUOSm&index=1</span></a></p>