Complicité by Cecil Taylor / Marilyn Crispell / Paul Plimley & John Oswald

"Three pianists-Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell and Paul Plimley-and an alto saxist-John Oswald-gathered to play, in a triple-header that meandered blissfully and chaotically, and showed us a vision of measured abandon. Freedom rang out, amidst floating bits of structure and melody, and it also stretched out over three hours (which seemed like less, a sign that music is working, and time is being artfully subverted). And it’s a very good thing, indeed, that it is now captured for posterity on a recording. The occasion turned out, through serendipitous circumstances, to be festive, and also historic.

Complicité was surely in this house, this evening. Obviously, an intensely personal expression is involved in the work of solo improvisers on this high of an order. Yet there is also a negation of the usual musical hierarchies, which makes this music so brimming with a kind of idealism, unveiled in very real time. What happened in Victoriaville that night, in a temporarily re-functioned hockey rink, was some kind of magic". - Josef Woodard, April, 2001

Tracks 1-5: Paul Plimley (Piano) & John Oswald (Alto Sax)

Tracks 6-14 Marilyn Crispell (Piano)

Tracks 15-19 Cecil Taylor (Piano)
CONCERT DÉDIÉ À JIMMY McDONALD

Les 3 concerts ont été enregistrés au 17ième Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville le 22 mai 2000 par chaine culturelle radio- Radio Canada pour l’émission Le Navire Night.

(P)2001 Société Radio-Canada
(C)2001 Les Éditions Victoriaville et Les Disques VICTO, SOCAN

Physical CDs are Out of Print.