Conquistador! is a 1968 studio album recorded in 1966 by free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released by Blue Note Records.

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, calling it "an all but flawless record," and commenting: "Dark, difficult, unique, yet operating at an artful tangent to some of the other 'difficult' Blue Note music of the period, this is Taylor at his most devious."

Writing for Vinyl Me Please, Brian Josephs stated: "Conquistador!... swerves away from Unit Structures' fire and evokes the coolness of its cover, which features a turtlenecked Taylor slightly out of focus, hiding behind shades as he mysteriously stares into the distance. The musical elements don’t combust as much as they melt into each other.." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yJWcxzZBVE&list=RD5yJWcxzZBVE&start_radio=1

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Other Afternoons is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970 on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series.

In his AllMusic review, Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating "this album stands out as containing much superior playing, springing from what seems to be a fully realized conception of just where the music was going". He wrote: "The combination of Lyons with Lester Bowie is simply marvelous. The alto saxophonist's speciality is a kind of pungent yet unsentimental tone, kind of a thinking man's Charlie Parker, while trumpeter Bowie seems to pack every note, whether it is blasted or delicately blown, with deep pockets of potential comedy or melancholy..." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst7aiCc4k4&list=RDDst7aiCc4k4&start_radio=1

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Unit Structures is a studio album by American jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, released in October 1966 by Blue Note Records.

According to Jesse Jarnow of Pitchfork: "The album is by no means easy listening; the atonality is unrepentant. But Taylor’s septet finds numerous gorgeous spaces as they interpret “free jazz” not just as the freedom to improvise but the freedom to invent musical worlds and hidden syntaxes. The only way to tap into the 'rhythm-sound energy found in the amplitude of each time unit,' as Taylor wrote in the liner notes, is to listen reverently...
..."Unit Structures still challenges notions of musical freedom. Recorded during the same season that the psychedelic ballroom scene was starting to bubble in San Francisco, Unit Structures did more to disassemble music than nearly all of the light-show-drenched psychedelia that followed."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Tdye6xuGI

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#NowPlaying Jimmy Lyons & Sunny Murray Trio - Jump Up/What To Do About (Hat Hut Records, Switzerland 1981).

Recorded live at Jazz Festival Willisau '80 on August 30, 1980.

With John Lindberg on bass.

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Cecil Taylor - "It Is In The Brewing Luminous" (1980)

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https://youtu.be/A7D-HEl6Px4

#NowPlaying Andrew Cyrille / Jeanne Lee / Jimmy Lyons - Nuba (Black Saint, Italy 1979).

Breathtakingly beautiful 🖤

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#NowPlaying Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons (BYG Records, France 1970).

Lester Bowie (trumpet), Jimmy Lyons (alto sax), Alan Silva (bass), Andrew Cyrille (drums).
Recorded August 15, 1969.

Last step on my quest to gather all the BYG/Actuel record collection.

This one is 🔥🔥🔥

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