2006's "Unit Structures" finds Cecil Taylor in a reflective, yet still fiercely uncompromising, mood, delivering a solo piano performance that directly engages with his own compositional innovations. The album documents a live performance at the Village Vanguard, a venue synonymous with jazz history.
- The album was recorded live at the Village Vanguard in New York City on December 11, 2002.
- "Unit Structures" was released nearly four years after its recording date, on February 22, 2006.
- The release was a return to the Blue Note label for Taylor, a label that had released some of his earliest work in the 1950s.
Cecil Taylor was a pioneering jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader whose work in the 1950s and 60s helped to establish the free jazz movement. By 2006, Taylor was a celebrated elder statesman of avant-garde jazz, whose uncompromising artistic vision remained undimmed.
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