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Title: Fresh "Air"
Review: Cecil Taylor'sNew York City R&B;is one of my favorite avant-garde jazz albums of the early 60s, but alas C.T. albums are often hard to digest so it took me awhile to stomach buying the three other Candid discs of outtakes from these sessions (it helped that I found them on the dollar menu). "Air" gives us three alternate takes of the title track (Shepp apparently had lots of problems with this one -- the last version is take 24!), and one of "Port of Call," both of which originally appeared onThe World of Cecil Taylor. We also get two accounts of "Number One" to lead things off. For many this "Air" will be hard to breathe, but I find it quite refreshing.
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