Cecil Taylor

Unit Structures

First released1966

Unit Structures was recorded on April 6, 1966 at the A&R Studios in New York City. The album was produced by Bob Thiele for the impulse! Records label. The recording captured Cecil Taylor's piano trio with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Andrew Cyrille, featuring Taylor's avant-garde approach to jazz piano with dense, complex harmonies and polyrhythmic structures. The session represented an important moment in free jazz documentation, capturing Taylor's fully realized compositional and improvisational aesthetic during the mid-1960s avant-garde jazz movement. The album was released in 1966 and has since been recognized as a landmark recording in experimental jazz piano.