Silent Tongues

Silent Tongues is a live album by Cecil Taylor on solo piano recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974. It features Taylor's five-movement work "Silent Tongues", along with two encores.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Since I recommend Taylor's appearances so extravagantly, it's only fair to note that there is a natural theater to his live performance that I miss on record—observing his concentration greatly increases my own. Especially solo, he's too abstract for a rock and roller to follow."^[2]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "To simplify in explaining what he was doing at this point of time, it can be said that Taylor essentially plays the piano like a drum set, creating percussive and thunderous sounds that are otherworldly and full of an impressive amount of energy and atonal ideas. Many listeners will find these performances to be quite difficult but it is worth the struggle to open up one's perceptions as to what music can be."^[1]

Silent Tongues was DownBeat's album of the year for 1975.^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor

"Abyss (First Movement)"/"Petals and Filaments (Second Movement)"/"Jitney (Third Movement)" - 18:23
"Crossing Part 1 (Fourth Movement Part 1)" - 8:36
"Crossing Part 2 (Fourth Movement Part 2)" - 10:00
"After All (Fifth Movement)" - 9:59
"Jitney No. 2" - 4:11
"After All No. 2" - 2:50

Recorded at Montreux on July 2, 1974

Personnel

Cecil Taylor – piano

References

^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: T". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 15, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 189. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ "1975 DownBeat Critics Poll". DownBeat. Maher Publications. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013.

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Discography
Studio albums	Jazz Advance Looking Ahead! Stereo Drive Love for Sale The World of Cecil Taylor Air Cell Walk for Celeste Jumpin' Punkins New York City R&B Unit Structures Conquistador! Cecil Taylor Unit 3 Phasis Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Chinampas In Florescence Momentum Space
Live albums	At Newport Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come Student Studies Praxis The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor Indent Akisakila Solo Spring of Two Blue J's Silent Tongues Dark to Themselves Air Above Mountains Live in the Black Forest One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye Historic Concerts It Is in the Brewing Luminous Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! The Eighth Garden Iwontunwonsi Amewa For Olim Olu Iwa Live in Bologna Live in Vienna Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil In East Berlin Regalia The Hearth Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) Remembrance Pleistozaen Mit Wasser Spots, Circles, and Fantasy Legba Crossing Erzulie Maketh Scent Leaf Palm Hand Looking (Berlin Version) Solo Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio Looking (Berlin Version) Corona Celebrated Blazons 2 Ts for a Lovely T CT: The Dance Project Double Holy House Nailed Melancholy The Tree of Life Always a Pleasure The Light of Corona Almeda Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 Lifting the Bandstand Algonquin Incarnation The Willisau Concert The Owner of the River Bank All the Notes Taylor/Dixon/Oxley The Last Dance
Compilations	Mixed

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