Cecil Taylor discography

| Jazz Advance

| Transition

| 1957

| Debut album

| At Newport

| Verve

| 1958

| Live with the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory

| Looking Ahead!

| Contemporary

| 1959

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| Hard Driving Jazz
also released as Coltrane Time and Stereo Drive

| United Artists/Blue Note

| 1959

| With John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Chuck Israels, Louis Hayes (and other editions with Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles).

| Love for Sale

| United Artists

| 1959

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| The World of Cecil Taylor

| Candid

| 1960

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| Air

| Candid

| 1990

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| New York City R&B

| Barnaby

| 1972

| with Buell Neidlinger

| Cell Walk for Celeste

| Candid

| 1988

|

| Jumpin' Punkins

| Candid

| 1987

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| The Early Unit 1962

| Ingo (Bootleg)

| ?

| Live at Stockholm

| Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
also released as Complete Live At The Cafe Montmartre

| Revenant

| 1963

| Live at Copenhagen

| Unit Structures

| Blue Note

| 1966

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| Conquistador!

| Blue Note

| 1968

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| Live in Stuttgart

| BMM (Bootleg)

| ?

| [2CDR] Live in Stuttgart

| Student Studies
also released as The Great Paris Concert

| BYG/Black Lion

| 1973

| Live

| Rotterdam 1967

| Headless Hawk (Bootleg)

| ?

| [CDR] Live at Rotterdam

| Praxis

| Praxis

| 1982

| [2LP] Live

| 1968-10

| Respiration

| Fundacja Słuchaj!

| 2022

| Live at Warsaw

| The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
also released as Nuits de la Fondation Maeght

| Prestige

| 1977

| Live

| In Europe

| Jazz Connoisseur (Bootleg)

| ?

| Live

| Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971

| FreeFactory

| 2009

| Live in NYC. bonus tracks rec. 1965

| Indent

| Unit Core

| 1973

| Live

| Akisakila

| Trio

| 1973

| Live

| Solo

| Trio

| 1973

| Live

| Spring of Two Blue J's

| Unit Core

| 1974

| Live in NYC. vinyl release was 2000 copies.

| The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert

| Oblivion

| 2022

| Live in NYC

| Silent Tongues

| Freedom

| 1975

| Live at Montreux Jazz Festival

| Dark to Themselves

| Enja

| 1977

| Live in Ljubljana

| Air Above Mountains (Buildings Within)

| Enja

| 1978

| Live in Langau

| Embraced

| Pablo Live

| 1978

| [2LP] Live with Mary Lou Williams

| Cecil Taylor Unit

| New World

| 1978

|

| 3 Phasis

| New World

| 1978

|

| Live in the Black Forest

| MPS

| 1978

| Live in Black Forest

| One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

| Hat Hut

| 1980

| Live in Stuttgart

| Historic Concerts

| Soul Note

| 1984

| Live with Max Roach at Columbia University

| It Is in the Brewing Luminous

| Hat Hut

| 1981

| Live

| Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!

| MPS

| 1981

| Live

| The Eighth

| Hat Hut

| 1986

| Live

| Garden

| Hat Hut

| 1982

| Live

| Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)

| Soul Note

| 1985

|

| Music from Two Continents (Live at Jazz Jamboree '84)

| Fundacja Słuchaj!

| 2021

| Live

| Iwontunwonsi

| Sound Hills

| 1995

| Live

| Amewa

| Sound Hills

| 1995

| Live

| For Olim

| Soul Note

| 1987

| Live

| Olu Iwa

| Soul Note

| 1987

| Live

| Live in Bologna

| Leo

| 1987

| Live in Bologna

| Live in Vienna

| Leo

| 1988

| Live in Vienna

| Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil

| Leo

| 1988

| Live

| Chinampas

| Leo

| 1987

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| Riobec

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Günter Sommer

| In East Berlin

| FMP

| 1989

| [2CD] Live

| Regalia

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Paul Lovens

| The Hearth

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Tristan Honsinger & Evan Parker

| Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)

| FMP

| 1989

| Live in Berlin

| Remembrance

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Louis Moholo

| Pleistozaen Mit Wasser

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Derek Bailey

| Spots, Circles, and Fantasy

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Han Bennink

| Legba Crossing

| FMP

| 1989

| Live

| Erzulie Maketh Scent

| FMP

| 1989

| Live

| Leaf Palm Hand

| FMP

| 1989

| Live with Tony Oxley

| In Florescence

| A&M

| 1990

|

| Looking (Berlin Version) Solo

| FMP

| 1990

| Live

| Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio

| FMP

| 1990

| Live

| Looking (Berlin Version) Corona

| FMP

| 1991

| Live

| Celebrated Blazons

| FMP

| 1993

| Live

| 2 Ts for a Lovely T

| Codanza Records

| 2002

| [10CD Limited Edition] Live in London

| Göttingen

| Fundacja Słuchaj!

| 2021

| [2CD] Live

| Double Holy House

| FMP

| 1993

| Live

| Nailed

| FMP

| 2000

| Live

| Melancholy

| FMP

| 1999

| Live with Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Wolfgang Fuchs

| CT: The Dance Project

| FMP

| 2008

| Live with William Parker and Masashi Harada

| The Tree of Life

| FMP

| 1998

| Live piano solo

| Duets 1992

| Triple Point Records

| 2019

| with Bill Dixon

| Always a Pleasure

| FMP

| 1996

| Live

| Corona

| FMP

| 2018

| Live with Sunny Murray

| Almeda

| FMP

| 2004

| Live as nonet

| The Light of Corona

| FMP

| 2003

| Live

| Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1

| Cadence Jazz

| 1998

| Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall

| Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2

| Cadence Jazz

| 1998

| Live with Harri Sjöström, Dominic Duval, Jackson Krall

| Momentum Space

| Verve

| 1999

| with Dewey Redman & Elvin Jones

| Lifting the Bandstand

| Fundacja Słuchaj!

| 2021

| Live

| Algonquin

| Bridge

| 2004

| Live. Great Performances from the Library of Congress – Vol. 18; with Mat Maneri.

| Poschiavo

| Black Sun

| 2018

| Live solo piano at the Uncool Festival, Poschiavo, Switzerland

| Incarnation

| FMP

| 2004

| Live

| All the Notes

| Cadence

| 2004

| Live

| At Angelica 2000 Bologna

| I Dischi Di Angelica

| 2020

| [2CD] Live recorded during Angelica, Festival Internazionale Di Musica, 10th Edition, May 5–13 and July 5–6, 2000, Bologna, Italy

| Complicité

| Les Disques Victo

| 2001

| Live at the 17th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Québec, Canada)

| The Willisau Concert

| Intakt

| 2002

| Live solo piano at the Jazzfestival Willisau

| The Owner of the River Bank
also released as Live In Ruvo Di Puglia 2000 (2021)

| Enja

| 2003

| Live with the Italian Instabile Orchestra as part of the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia (South Italy)

|Being Astral and All Registers – Power of Two

| Discus

| 2020

| Live with Tony Oxley

| Taylor/Dixon/Oxley

| Les Disques Victo

| 2002

| Live at the 19th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
with Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley

| The Last Dance

| Cadence Jazz

| 2009

| Live with Dominic Duval

|Conversations with Tony Oxley

| Jazzwerkstatt

| 2018

| Live with Tony Oxley

|Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of 2 Root Songs

| Triple Point Records

| 2009

| Live with Tony Oxley

|Birdland, Neuburg 2011

| Fundacja Słuchaj!

| 2020

| Live with Tony Oxley