Cecil Taylor

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

1980: Cecil Taylor solo on MPS, under a title that repeats its instruction five times because once was never going to be enough for this music or this man. The German label's legendary piano sound meets the most orchestral pianist alive, and the result is one of the best-recorded solo Taylor documents in existence: every register of the instrument present and accounted for - the subterranean left-hand rumble, the treble glitter, the full-keyboard avalanches - as the structures build, collide and take wing exactly as the title commands, again and again. By 1980 the solo concert had become Taylor's purest and most personal form, the complete statement requiring no one's cooperation; this studio counterpart delivers that form in audiophile clothing, the Villingen engineering tradition serving its most demanding client.

Japanese MPS pressing, compounding the quality. For the solo shelf, for the hi-fi, and for anyone who still doubts a piano can levitate: five instructions, one record, total compliance.