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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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Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor LP cover

Ended yesterday and welcomed Friday after a swim with To My Queen an album led by vibraphonist and composer Walt Dickerson recorded in 1962 and released on the New Jazz label.

The Allmusic reviewer stated: "The whole album is swathed in a gauzy glow that speaks even more eloquently than its creator's conceptual ambition; this is music from the heart as well as the mind".[3] Down Beat reviewer Don Nelson wrote: "This tribute from Dickerson to his wife constitutes some of the finest jazz I have heard this year. It is necessary listening not only to those interested in the forward march of Walt Dickerson, but to those interested in the forward march of jazz". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0q2quUbkHo

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The Music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik is the third album by double bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik featuring performances recorded in 1961 and originally released on the New Jazz label.

Eugene Chadbourne of Allmusic says "This jazz musician of Sudanese descent [sic] shows up here and there on recording sessions from the '60s, including a stint as a member of Thelonious Monk's combo. He also played oud and took part in a variety of attempts to blend his roots music with jazz, out of which this is one of the most successful". (Abdul-Malik was actually of Caribbean descent.) - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbh6W3sAuZs&list=PLyHn3f7-9IUISu-fUvsSyGbM32xK0HW5p&index=1

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Ended yesterday and welcomed today with Relativity an album led by vibraphonist and composer Walt Dickerson which was recorded in 1962 and released on the New Jazz label.

...Down Beat reviewer Don DeMichael wrote: "This third Dickerson album, like the first two, offers excitement, emotional experience, and music of high quality. ...this is a very good album and is heartily recommended for the sometime electrifying emotion Dickerson is able to generate." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFOL8fGi54&list=PLcOgwLcJazVCtfqXD3aBZChn4q-_l7wwc&index=18

#waltdickerson #vibraphone #jazz #ahmedabdulmalik #andrewcyrille