Mixed (album)

Mixed is a compilation album of two avant-garde jazz sessions featuring performances by the Cecil Taylor Unit and the Roswell Rudd Sextet. The album was released on the Impulse! label in 1998 and collects three performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Jimmy Lyons, Henry Grimes and Sunny Murray with Ted Curson and Roswell Rudd added on one track which were originally released under Gil Evans' name on Into the Hot (1961). The remaining tracks feature Rudd with Giuseppi Logan, Lewis Worrell, Charlie Haden, Beaver Harris and Robin Kenyatta and were originally released as Everywhere (1966). Essentially these are the three Cecil Taylor tracks form the "Gil Evans album" (i.e. Evans was not meaningfully involved but Impulse had printed the album covers) teamed with Roswell Rudd's Impulse album Everywhere, in its entirety.

Mixed
Compilation album by
Cecil Taylor/Roswell Rudd
Released1998
RecordedOctober 10, 1961 & July 8, 1966
GenreJazz
Length69:56
LabelImpulse!
ProducerCreed Taylor
Cecil Taylor chronology
New York City R&B
(1961)		 Mixed
(1998)		 Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
(1962)
Roswell Rudd chronology
Roswell Rudd
(1965)		 Everywhere
(1966)		 Numatik Swing Band
(1973)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow notes that "This date as a whole was one of Cecil Taylor's last ones on which he still had a connection (if loose) to more traditional straight-ahead jazz", and states: "Although not Roswell Rudd's greatest album, there are enough fascinating ensembles on this set for it to nearly hold its own with Cecil Taylor's more essential session".[1]

Writing for All About Jazz, Jim Santella stated that the Taylor tracks possess "a fascinating sense of direction and cohesion", and commented: "At times sharing a unison melody or riff, and at times improvising simultaneously, the ensemble provides a meaty subject and an enjoyable rainbow of sound patterns. The album stretches from readily accessible material to avant-garde fringe jazz. Recommended."[2]

Track listing
  1. "Bulbs" (Cecil Taylor) – 6:49
  2. "Pots" (Taylor) – 5:44
  3. "Mixed" (Taylor) – 10:08
  4. "Everywhere" (Beaver Harris) – 11:32
  5. "Yankee No-How" (Roswell Rudd) – 12:03
  6. "Respects" (Rudd) – 11:39
  7. "Satan's Dance" (Giuseppi Logan) – 12:01
  • Recorded in New York City on October 10, 1961 (tracks 1–3) & San Francisco on February 1, 1966 (tracks 4–7)

Personnel

References
  1. Yanow, Scott Allmusic Review accessed 9 July 2009
  2. Santella, Jim (February 1, 1999). "Cecil Taylor Unit & Roswell Rudd Sextet: Mixed". All About Jazz. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
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