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Air Above Mountains
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ENJ 3005CD ENJ 3005CD
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RELEASE DATE
3/14/2025

Originally released in 2019. "Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within) is a live album by Cecil Taylor performing a solo piano concert recorded at the Moosham Castle in Langau, Austria on August 20, 1976. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states 'Except for some brief moments, his music is quite in-tense, percussive, crowded and overflowing with passion. Taylor's longtime fans will find much to marvel at while newcomers to his music are advised instead to check out his earlier (and less dissonant) sessions from the 1950s first.' In a brief tribute to Air Above Mountains in the Chicago Tribune, journalist Jack Fuller wrote: 'To breathe Cecil Taylor's rarefied piano atmosphere, you have to have been acclimated. Straight jazz won't do it. Contemporary European art music is closer, thin on conventional harmonic structure and without recognizable melodic line. When you have learned to live in this thin but bracing abstract atmosphere, Taylor's improvisations are as magnificent as a mountaintop: hard, inaccessible and grand.' Nat Hentoff described Air Above Mountains as 'unyieldingly absorbing -- in terms of inexorable logic of its structures, the kaleidoscopic swiftness of his melodic inventions, leaps through pulsing time, and the oversize feeling with which all these elements are fused.'"