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Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) is a live album by Cecil Taylor with the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988, as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.[3]

Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)
Live album by Cecil Taylor
Released	1989
Recorded	July 2, 1988
Genre	Free jazz
Label	FMP
Cecil Taylor chronology
The Hearth (1989) Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) (1989) Remembrance (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[2]

Critical reception

The AllMusic review by "Blue" Gene Tyranny states "This set is interesting primarily to hear European musicians interpret Taylor's kinesthetic directing...mostly an intense density of "free playing" (actually following specific internalized instructions and images) with almost everyone going on different gestures at once, with slow unison melodies emerging from the environment".[4] Describing the album as “deeply moving”, The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings says it is “a monumental event, the colossal sonic impact tempered by Taylor’s own unflinching, instinctual control and a grasp of dynamics and dramatic possibility which is breathtaking.”[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.

1. "Involution/Evolution" – 58:51
2. "Weight-Breath-Sounding Trees" – 63:48

• • Recorded in Berlin on July 2, 1988

Personnel

• Cecil Taylor – piano, voice
• Enrico Rava, Tomasz Stanko – trumpet
• Peter van Bergen – tenor saxophone
• Peter Brötzmann – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, tarogato
• Hans Koch – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Evan Parker – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Louis Sclavis – soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
• Hannes Bauer, Christian Radovan, Wolter Wierbos – trombone
• Martin Mayes – French horn
• Gunter Hampel – vibraphone
• Tristan Honsinger – cello
• Peter Kowald, William Parker – double bass
• Han Bennink – drums

References

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