Cecil Taylor discography
Discography
As leader
| Year recorded | Title | Label | Year released | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Jazz Advance | Transition | 1957 | Debut album |
| 1957 | At Newport | Verve | 1958 | live with the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory |
| 1958 | Looking Ahead! | Contemporary | 1959 | |
| 1956-58 | Hard Driving Jazz | United Artists/Blue Note | 1959 | also released as Coltrane Time and much later as Stereo Drive. With John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes (and other editions with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles). |
| 1959 | Love for Sale | United Artists | 1959 | |
| 1960 | The World of Cecil Taylor | Candid | 1960 | |
| 1960 | Air | Candid | 1990 | |
| 1961 | New York City R&B | Barnaby | 1972 | with Buell Neidlinger |
| 1961 | Cell Walk for Celeste | Candid | 1988 | |
| 1961 | Jumpin' Punkins | Candid | 1987 | |
| 1962 | The Early Unit 1962 | Ingo (Bootleg) | ? | live at Stockholm |
| 1962 | Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come | Revenant | 1963 | live at Copenhagen. also released as Complete Live At The Cafe Montmartre. |
| 1966 | Unit Structures | Blue Note | 1966 | |
| 1966 | Conquistador! | Blue Note | 1968 | |
| 1966, 69 | Live in Stuttgart | BMM (Bootleg) | ? | live in Stuttgart [2CDR] |
| 1966 | Student Studies | BYG/Black Lion | 1973 | live. also released as The Great Paris Concert. |
| 1967 | Rotterdam 1967 | Headless Hawk (Bootleg) | ? | live at Rotterdam [CDR] |
| 1968 | Praxis | Praxis | 1982 | live [2LP] |
| 1968 | Respiration | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2022 | live at Warsaw |
| 1969 | The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor | Prestige | 1977 | live. also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght. |
| 1969 | In Europe | Jazz Connoisseur (Bootleg) | ? | live |
| 1971 | Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971 | FreeFactory | 2009 | live at NYC. bonus tracks are recorded in 1965. |
| 1973 | Indent | Unit Core | 1973 | live |
| 1973 | Akisakila | Trio | 1973 | live |
| 1973 | Solo | Trio | 1973 | live |
| 1973 | Spring of Two Blue J's | Unit Core (bootleg) | 1974 | live in NYC. vinyl release was 2000 copies. |
| 1973 | The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert | Oblivion | 2022 | live in NYC |
| 1974 | Silent Tongues | Freedom | 1975 | live at Montreux Jazz Festival |
| 1976 | Dark to Themselves | Enja | 1977 | live in Ljubljana |
| 1976 | Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within) | Enja | 1978 | live in Langau |
| 1977 | Embraced | Pablo Live | 1978 | live with Mary Lou Williams [2LP] |
| 1978 | Cecil Taylor Unit | New World | 1978 | |
| 1978 | 3 Phasis | New World | 1978 | |
| 1978 | Live in the Black Forest | MPS | 1978 | live in Black Forest |
| 1978 | One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye | Hat Hut | 1980 | live in Stuttgart |
| 1979 | Historic Concerts | Soul Note | 1984 | live with Max Roach at Columbia University |
| 1980 | It Is in the Brewing Luminous | Hat Hut | 1981 | live |
| 1980 | Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! | MPS | 1981 | live |
| 1981 | The Eighth | Hat Hut | 1986 | live |
| 1981 | Garden | Hat Hut | 1982 | live |
| 1984 | Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) | Soul Note | 1985 | |
| 1984 | Music from Two Continents (Live at Jazz Jamboree '84) | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | live |
| 1986 | Iwontunwonsi | Sound Hills | 1995 | live |
| 1986 | Amewa | Sound Hills | 1995 | live |
| 1986 | For Olim | Soul Note | 1987 | live |
| 1986 | Olu Iwa | Soul Note | 1987 | live |
| 1987 | Live in Bologna | Leo | 1987 | live in Bologna |
| 1987 | Live in Vienna | Leo | 1988 | Live in Vienna |
| 1987 | Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil | Leo | 1988 | live |
| 1987 | Chinampas | Leo | 1987 | |
| 1988 | Riobec | FMP | 1989 | live with Günter Sommer |
| 1988 | In East Berlin | FMP | 1989 | live [2CD] |
| 1988 | Regalia | FMP | 1989 | live with Paul Lovens |
| 1988 | The Hearth | FMP | 1989 | live with Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker |
| 1988 | Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) | FMP | 1989 | live in Berlin |
| 1988 | Remembrance | FMP | 1989 | live with Louis Moholo |
| 1988 | Pleistozaen Mit Wasser | FMP | 1989 | live with Derek Bailey |
| 1988 | Spots, Circles, and Fantasy | FMP | 1989 | live with Han Bennink |
| 1988 | Legba Crossing | FMP | 1989 | live |
| 1988 | Erzulie Maketh Scent | FMP | 1989 | live |
| 1988 | Leaf Palm Hand | FMP | 1989 | live with Tony Oxley |
| 1989 | In Florescence | A&M | 1990 | |
| 1989 | Looking (Berlin Version) Solo | FMP | 1990 | live |
| 1989 | Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio | FMP | 1990 | live |
| 1989 | Looking (Berlin Version) Corona | FMP | 1991 | live |
| 1990 | Celebrated Blazons | FMP | 1993 | live |
| 1990 | 2 Ts for a Lovely T | Codanza Records | 2002 | live in London [10CD Limited Edition] |
| 1990 | Göttingen | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | live [2CD] |
| 1990 | Double Holy House | FMP | 1993 | live |
| 1990 | Nailed | FMP | 2000 | live |
| 1990 | Melancholy | FMP | 1999 | live with Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs |
| 1990 | CT: The Dance Project | FMP | 2008 | live with William Parker and Masashi Harada |
| 1991 | The Tree of Life | FMP | 1998 | live piano solo |
| 1992 | Duets 1992 | Triple Point Records | 2019 | with Bill Dixon |
| 1993 | Always a Pleasure | FMP | 1996 | live |
| 1996 | Corona | FMP | 2018 | live with Sunny Murray |
| 1996 | Almeda | FMP | 2004 | live as nonet |
| 1996 | The Light of Corona | FMP | 2003 | live |
| 1998 | Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 | Cadence Jazz | 1998 | live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
| 1998 | Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 | Cadence Jazz | 1998 | live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall |
| 1998 | Momentum Space | Verve | 1999 | with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones |
| 1998 | Lifting the Bandstand | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2021 | live |
| 1999 | Algonquin | Bridge | 2004 | live. Great Performances from the Library of Congress – Vol. 18; with Mat Maneri. |
| 1999 | Poschiavo | Black Sun | 2018 | live solo piano at the Uncool Festival, Poschiavo, Switzerland |
| 1999 | Incarnation | FMP | 2004 | live |
| 2000 | All the Notes | Cadence | 2004 | live |
| 2000 | At Angelica 2000 Bologna | I Dischi Di Angelica | 2020 | live recorded during Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, 10th Edition, May 5-13 and July 5-6, 2000, Bologna, Italy [2CD] |
| 2000 | Complicité | Les Disques Victo | 2001 | live at the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada) |
| 2000 | The Willisau Concert | Intakt | 2002 | live solo piano at the Jazzfestival Willisau |
| 2000 | The Owner of the River Bank | Enja | 2003 | live with the Italian Instabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia (South Italy). also released as Live In Ruvo Di Puglia 2000 (2021). |
| 2002 | Being Astral and All Registers – Power of Two | Discus | 2020 | live with Tony Oxley |
| 2002 | Taylor/Dixon/Oxley | Les Disques Victo | 2002 | live at the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley |
| 2003 | The Last Dance | Cadence Jazz | 2009 | live with Dominic Duval |
| 2008 | Conversations with Tony Oxley | Jazzwerkstatt | 2018 | live with Tony Oxley |
| 2008 | Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs | Triple Point Records | 2009 | live with Tony Oxley |
| 2011 | Birdland, Neuburg 2011 | Fundacja Słuchaj! | 2020 | live with Tony Oxley |
Compilations
- In Transition (Blue Note, 1975) – recorded in 1955 and 1959; compiles tracks from Jazz Advance and Love for Sale
- In Berlin '88 (FMP, 1989)[11CD] – recorded in 1988
- Crossing (Jazz Hour, 1989) – recorded in 1966, 73, 74. two tracks with Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille plus four tracks solo piano; contains excerpts from Student Studies, Indent, and Silent Tongues.
- Mixed with Roswell Rudd (Impulse!, 1998)
As sideman
- John Coltrane, Stereo Drive (United Artists, 1959) – rec. 1958
- Gil Evans Orchestra, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961. features tracks also released on Mixed.
- Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA, 1968) – featured on 2 tracks
- Friedrich Gulda, Nachricht vom Lande (Brain, 1976)[2LP] – 3 tracks
- Tony Williams, The Joy of Flying (Columbia, 1978) – 1 track
- Art Ensemble of Chicago, Thelonious Sphere Monk (DIW, 1991) – rec. 1990. 3 tracks.
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