Riobec

Riobec
Live album by Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer
Released	1988
Recorded	June 17, 1988
Genre	Free jazz
Label	FMP
Cecil Taylor chronology
Chinampas (1988) Riobec (1988) In East Berlin (1988)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Riobec is a live album by Cecil Taylor and Günter Sommer recorded in Berlin on June 17, 1988 as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.^[2]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "The cinematic effect of this music is absolutely uncanny over the suite's four parts. While listening, one gets the impression of a pair of angels making mischief right under the nose of God. The sheer joy and smirky exuberance at play here make for a wondrous change of pace and mood for Taylor, and consequently offer listeners some of his most intimate and compelling music. Too often Taylor is regarded as a stern taskmaster and visionary whose connections to the roots of jazz are attenuated at best. Here the traces of Ellington and Fats Waller are everywhere, plainly there for the hearing. And Riobec, with the wildly comic and frenetic stylings of Sommer, proves once and for all that impression to be erroneous".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor & Günter Sommer.

1. "Riobec 1" - 29:13
2. "Riobec 2" - 13:13
3. "Riobec 3" - 24:43
4. "Riobec 4" - 6:44

• Recorded in Berlin on June 17, 1988

Personnel

• Cecil Taylor: piano
• Günter Sommer: drums

References

1. Allmusic Review
2. Cecil Taylor sessionography accessed 3 September 2009
3. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed 3 September 2009