cecil taylor - melancholy?

remember the jazz composer orchestra album ? Taylor's track, part one -- seven minutes in a similar horn section root note + 7th trick is used to create tension and build up speed -- the effect has been exciting and exhilerating for me for years even though i must have listened to it a hundred times

so, yeah the horn blare thing is used like that at times, and in other ways elsewhere on the disc -- lots of different stuff happens on this disc -- unlike some Taylor discs he's not just doing the one thing with the horn section, not using them for occasional serial- soloing or motif decoration

it's a well controlled project size wise, like jazz composers orchestra and "sliding quadrants/two continents"(which was too short !), unlike the endless fmp 2CD "arms/tiergarten" effort which i think does too much of the same thing for too long (the worst fmp, too accessible and ultimately boring, as well as boringly star- studded)

on "melancholy" the resources are used in various ways across the 70 odd minutes -- three seperate sections -- denser than the startling "Olu Iwa" and more diverse

plus Barry Guy beats W Parker, and Harri Sjostrom has locked with Cecil on a number of great discs now

as Braxton has noted, we all wish there were more discs of Cecil's great small orchestra/big band music, so here's a good recent effort, with Cecil not repeating himself as much as on the Leo recordings and making the most of an orchestral composition approach, rather than having a horn wig-out

i think the fmp discs are the best of the bunch (plus a couple of Soul Notes), given the labels meticulous attention to decent engineering and its intent of providing a wide view of Cecil in different settings and approaches, documenting him at last, making (imho) all 15 (by now ?) of the fmps worth owning