1. PORTFOLIOS
THIS PORTFOLIO IS IN PROGRESS
1962
From The Golden Circle, Stockholm.
Jimmy Lyons, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor and Kurt Lindgren.
Photograph by Jonny Graan
THREE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SESSION 62-1126 AT CLUB ERIKSLUST IN MALMÖ, SWEDEN.
CECIL TAYLOR, p, AND SUNNY MURRAY, dr.
UNFORTENATELY THERE ARE NO PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THIS SESSION INCLUDING JIMMY LYONS OR ALBERT AYLER.
Photographs by Ernst Henriksson / Sydsvenskan
1965
At Slug`s, NYC.
Henry Grimes, Jimmy Lyons, Louis Worrel and Albert Ayler.
Photograph by Rymond Ross
1969
Jimmy Lyons in Stockholm, Sweden, October 1969
Photograph (c) by Arne Jönsson
1978
Jimmy Lyons at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1978
Photograph (c) by Brian McMillen.
1981
Photo by Innis Wilson(c)
At the Roundhouse, London
The drummer is Charles Down (Rashied Bakr)
Jimmy Lyons
photograph by David Prentice
The photograph was taken on New Year's Eve 1979-80 at creative music studio in Woodstock NY.
It was a concert during a residency of the Cecil Taylor unit at CMS
Photograph by John Oslansky.
Unknown location and date.
HERE FOLLOWS SOME PHOTOGRAPHS BY RAYMOND ROSS FROM UNKNOWN LOCATIONS AND DATES
PHOTOGRPHS BY VAL WILMER
Photo by: Lucas Lindenmaier.
Unknown location and date.
Photo by: Leni Sinclair
Unknown location and date
BELOW FOLLOWS A REVIEW FROM THE CONCERT AT CLUB ERIKSLUND, MALMÖ, SWEDEN IN THE LOCAL PAPER
Cacophony at Erikslust
It is really not easy to create some kind of review from that kind of music which an astonished audience at Erikslust expired last night.
The simplest is of course to establish, that it only sounded bad, but it is maybe not fair. The risk is always there that Mr. Cecil Taylor will be conceder as a genius within some years and then maybe I will pointed for various reasons.
Mr. Taylor has as habits to take plenty of time for his parts and I have to put down the following after have heard only one song – "What´s New", a symbolist title maybe?
In order to make it in a conventional way and take the member of the trio one by one sounds the drummer Sonny Murray as a pure charlatan.
The alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons is a kind of vulgarized Parker, but still the most normal in the trio, if one can use a word as normal.
Mr. Taylor himself is something very strange. The man has without any doubt a quite fabulous technique and sometimes almost classical touch, but one wonders why he is playing in the way he does.
If it is some kind of musical revolt, one would very much learn what he is revolting against. Conventions? Pure sense?
In the second part of the concert, as just now takes place, plays also a tenor saxophonist (according to information is his name Albert Aylor). No comments.
O yes, we think dedicated bad about Cecil Taylor's music and everything what Taylor stands for. If he now stands for anything at all.
Jimmy Lyons
Unknown place, date and photographer.
Cecil Taylor Unit
Unknown place, date and photographer.
