Win a copy of Cecil Taylor Unit’s RSD release!
One copy of Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts 3-LP set will be given away to a paid subscriber.
As we do every month, we’re giving away some shiny new vinyl to one of the subscribers on our paid tier. And this month we’ve got a copy of Cecil Taylor Unit’s 3-LP set Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts, a Record Store Day exclusive from last month. Recorded live on November 3, 1969, in Paris’s legendary Salle Pleyel concert hall, the ensemble features Taylor on piano (naturally), Sam Rivers on tenor sax, soprano sax, and flute, Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, and Andrew Cyrille on drums. Released on Elemental Music under the imprimatur of jazz reissue guru Zev Feldman, this is one for the free-jazz heads out there, as this is difficult but enthralling music, as Bob wrote in his review. The audio was taken from the French audio archives at INA and mastered by Matthew Lutthans.
This contest is only for paid subscribers, so if you’d like to be eligible for this and future giveaways, there’s no better time to upgrade your subscription.
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Entries for this giveaway will stay open until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Sunday, May 31, so you’ve got more than a week to upgrade your subscription and enter. But there’s no time like the present!
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