Looking Ahead!

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Looking Ahead!
Looking Ahead!.jpg
Studio album by
Cecil Taylor
Released1959
RecordedJune 9, 1958
GenreJazz
Length41:47
LabelContemporary
Cecil Taylor chronology
At Newport
(1958) 		Looking Ahead!
(1959) 		Stereo Drive
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4.5/5 stars[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 stars[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide4/5 stars[2]

Looking Ahead! is the second album by pianist Cecil Taylor, recorded for the Contemporary label in June 1958. The album features performances by Taylor with Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles, and Earl Griffith.

Reception[]

The AllMusic review by Brian Olewnick states: "Looking Ahead! does just that while still keeping several toes in the tradition. It's an amazing document of a talent fairly straining at the reins, a meteor about to burst onto the jazz scene and render it forever changed... Looking Ahead! is a vital recording from the nascence of one of the towering geniuses of modern music and belongs in any jazz fan's collection".[4]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Cecil Tayor except as indicated
  1. "Luyah! The Glorious Step" - 6:25
  2. "African Violets" (Griffith, Taylor) - 5:12
  3. "Of What" - 8:18
  4. "Wallering" - 5:22
  5. "Toll" - 7:38
  6. "Excursion on a Wobbly Rail" - 9:04
  • Recorded at Nola's Penthouse Studios, NYC, June 9, 1958

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ AllMusic Review
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 189. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1380. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Olewnick, B. AllMusic Review accessed July 9, 2009.
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