Cecil Taylor Unit - Live At Fat Tuesday's February 10, 1980 First Visit

2024

Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
Ramsey Ameen - violin
Cecil Taylor - piano
Alan Silva double - bass & cello
Jerome Cooper - drums & african balaphone
Sunny Murray - drums

This, the third release from the sequence of remarkable performances by Cecil Taylor’s Unit recorded at Fat Tuesday’s in New York from 8-10 February 1980 (the previous two are It Is In the Brewing Luminous [Hat Hut], and Live At Fat Tuesday’s, February 9, 1980 [ezz-thetics 101]), is a further illumination of the transformational premise which conceptualized and catalyzed Taylor’s music, from creative impulse to spiritual and self-defining fulfillment. (Art Lange)

- Recorded live February 10, 1980 at Fat Tuesday’s, New York by Peter Kuhn & Harry Baker/Al Vertucci (Reels on Wheels): Supervised by Werner X. Uehlinger; Mix by Peter Pfister; Sound restoration & mastering by Michael Brändli Hardstudios AG; Cover photo taken at the concert by Spencer Richards; Liner notes by Art Lange; graphic concept by fuhrer vienna; Produced with a contribution by Hartwig Fischer; Associate producer: Christian C. Dalucas; Honorary producer: Bernhard “Benne” Vischer.
Executive producer: Werner X. Uehlinger www.hathut.com

Producer’s note:
I was present at the recordings, sitting in the recording truck in front of Fat Tuesday’s in NYC. The recording was made on 8 track tapes, which I took back to Switzerland and were mixed in May 1980 in the sound studio of Peter Pfister. 4 sets have been recorded February 8 to 10, 1980: 1st set on the 8th pm, 2nd set from 8th pm to 9th am,3rd set on the 9th pm and the 4th set on the 10th am. The 2nd set has been released as "It Is in the Brewing Luminous", which is sold out. In November 2023 the mixed analog tapes were transferred to digital at the Hardstudios in Winterthur by Michael Brändli.

Set 3: Cecil Taylor Unit: "Live At Fat Tuesday’s February 9, 1980" on ezz-thetics 101 was released.

This is the first release of set 4 as Cecil Taylor Unit; "Live Fat Tuesday’s February 10, 1980"