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at AngelicA 2000 Bologna

by Cecil Taylor (IDA 042 – 2020)

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Track 1, 2, 3, 4: Dance Of All Seasons
Cecil Taylor: piano, voice
music and poetry by Cecil Taylor

Recorded by BH Audio at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, May 10, 2000, during AngelicA, Festival Internazionale di Musica, 10th edition, may 5>13 + july 5>6, 2000, Bologna, Italy

Track 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11: Rap
Cecil Taylor: voice
Franco Fabbri: interviewer
words and poetry by Cecil Taylor

Recorded at the Palazzo dei Notai, Bologna, May 11, 2000, during AngelicA, Festival Internazionale di Musica, 10th edition, may 5>13 + july 5>6, 2000, Bologna, Italy

Track 12: Montage of Meanings - No Matter What
Cecil Taylor: piano, voice
Massimo Simonini: montage (of meanings)
music, poetry and words by Cecil Taylor

Montage produced by Massimo Simonini at Home Studio, Vignola, May, 2020

40 pages booklet with photos, transcription and translation by Francesco Martinelli of the words and poetry by Cecil Taylor.

Note - June 2020
track titles have been given by the production and have a merely indicative value in order to follow and identify the subjects and statements discussed by Cecil Taylor in the talk of CD 2. Correspondingly to CD 1 and to CD 2 has been assigned a title, inspired by the talk itself.

Producer - Executive Producer: Massimo Simonini
Mastered in May 2020 by Bob Drake at Studio Midi-Pyrénées, La Borde Basse, Caudeval, France
Design: Massimo Golfieri, Concetta Nasone


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released October 5, 2020

CECIL TAYLOR
At AngelicA 2000 Bologna

premiere recording

In the year 2000, when Bologna was European Capital of Culture, AngelicA Festival, then in its tenth edition, invited Cecil Taylor to hold a concert at the Teatro Comunale - Opera House of Bologna: solo, with his piano (and his dance and his poetry readings) he opened an evening that ended with a rendition of the luminous piece Coptic Light by Morton Feldman performed by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by Jurjen Hempel.
This unusual juxtaposition (not in the history of the festival!) should not surprise: initially ascribed only to free jazz, throughout the decades Taylor’s music has been re-evaluated in all its formal complexity, and is nowadays recognised as one of the most singular productions in the musical landscape of the Nineteenth century.
The additional uniqueness of this release is that it adds a second CD, titled Rap, to the recording of that memorable concert, which documents the public meeting-interview that Taylor agreed to give in Bologna on the following day.
Moderated by the musicologist (and founding member of the band Stormy Six) Franco Fabbri, and transcribed and notated in its entirety in the forty pages booklet (in English/Italian) by the jazz critic and historian Francesco Martinelli, Taylor opened the meeting by reading a complex statement of his on the definition of music, inclusive of an explanatory glossary at the end. What came after was no less bewildering, with Taylor using the moderator’s questions as a springboard for an explosive tour de force of quotes and references: from the classical ballet stars Katherine Dunham and Maya Plissetskaya and the tap dancers Bojangles and Nicholas Brothers to the petroglyphs of the Hopi Native Americans and the Coptic manuscripts, the structures of Xenakis and the architect Calatrava, the Orisha deities and the dynamics of cell growth in bark, Derek Bailey and Stravinsky… Thus offering the listeners an experience almost equivalent to the extraordinary internal mobility of his concerts, and a precise grid of interpretation of the imaginaries he drew from to create his unique sound, scenic and vocal theatre.
The release is completed by No Matter What - Montage of Meanings, an homage that the director of the festival Massimo Simonini paid to Taylor in May 2020, editing together extracts of the concert and of the public meeting.
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Nel 2000, anno in cui Bologna era Capitale Europea della Cultura, il festival AngelicA, nel suo decimo anno, invitò Cecil Taylor a tenere un concerto al Teatro Comunale di Bologna: in solo, con il suo pianoforte (e la sua danza e le sue declamazioni poetiche) aprì una serata conclusa da un'esecuzione della luminosa Coptic Light di Morton Feldman da parte dell'Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, diretta da Jurjen Hempel.
L'accostamento inusuale (non per la storia del festival!) non deve stupire: accomunata inizialmente al solo ambito free jazzistico, la musica di Taylor è stata riconsiderata con il passare dei decenni in tutta la sua complessità formale, e oggi è riconosciuta come uno degli esiti più singolari nel panorama della musica del Novecento.
L'eccezionalità aggiuntiva di questa uscita discografica è che accosta alla registrazione integrale di quel memorabile concerto un secondo cd, intitolato Rap, che documenta l'intervista-incontro con il pubblico bolognese che Taylor accettò di tenere il giorno successivo.
Moderato dal musicologo (e membro fondatore degli Stormy Six) Franco Fabbri, e interamente trascritto e annotato nelle quaranta pagine del libretto (in inglese/italiano) dal critico e storico del jazz Francesco Martinelli, Taylor aprì l'incontro leggendo una sua complessa dichiarazione, corredata di glossario finale esplicativo, sulla sua definizione di musica.
Non meno disorientante fu il prosieguo, con Taylor che usò le domande del moderatore come un trampolino di lancio per un pirotecnico tour de force di citazioni e riferimenti: le stelle della danza classica Katherine Dunham e Maya Plissetskaya e i ballerini di tiptap Bojangles e Nicholas Brothers, i petroglifi degli indiani Hopi e i manoscritti Copti, le strutture di Xenakis e quelle dell'architetto Calatrava, le divinità Orisha e i meccanismi di proliferazione cellulare nelle cortecce, Derek Bailey e Stravinsky... ma venendo a offrire così agli ascoltatori quasi un equivalente della straordinaria mobilità interna dei suoi concerti, e una precisa griglia interpretativa dell'immaginario cui attingeva per il suo inimitabile teatro sonoro, scenico e vocale.
L'edizione è completata da No Matter What - Montage of Meanings un omaggio che il direttore del festival Massimo Simonini ha dedicato a Taylor nel maggio 2020, editando assieme estratti del concerto e dell'incontro pubblico.

Label : "i dischi di angelica” - DOUBLE DISC - IDA042

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