DESCRIPTION:
Recorded June 1968.
Composed and conducted by Michael Mantler.
Cecil Taylor, piano.
Andrew Cyrille, drums.
Al Gibbons, Steve Marcus, soprano sax; Bob Donovan, Jimmy Lyons, alto sax; Lew Tabackin, Gato Barbieri, tenor sax; Charles Davis, baritone sax; Lloyd Michaels, Stephen Furtado, flugelhorns; Bob Northern, Julius Watkins, french horns; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Jack Jeffers, bass trombone; Howard Johnson, tuba; Bob Cunningham, Charlie Haden, Reggie Johnson, Alan Silva, Reggie Workman, basses.

"I remember reading the review of this piece in downbeat, the writer
explaining that he felt the need to glance over at his stereo to
ensure that the LP wasn't levitating off the turntable. It really is
that strong, protean, a living, throbbing, hyper-imaginative set of
music with the wonderful happenstance of Mantler's ideas blossoming at
the exact moment Taylor was making the transition in his playing from
the fevered hermetics of his two mid-60s masterpieces, "Unit
Structures" and "Conquistador!" into the elaborate and expansive
explorations that would soon be heard in works like "Indent" and
"Silent Tongues". Trying to describe it is something of a fool's
errand anyway; I've often had the mental image of a cauldron
containing molten metal, boiling, sustaining a plosive pattern
somewhere between regularity and chaos." -Brian Olewnick, on his fantastic music blog The Bird Cage, frombirdtocage.blogspot.com