Jumpin' Punkins

Jumpin' Punkins
Jumpin' Punkins
Studio album by Cecil Taylor
Released	1977, 1987
Recorded	January 9–10, 1961
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:23
Label	Candid
Cecil Taylor chronology

Jumpin' Punkins is an album by Cecil Taylor recorded for the Candid label in January 1961 but not issued in the States until 1987. The first release was in Japan by Victor in 1977 as Cecil Taylor All Stars Featuring Buell Neidlinger. The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles with Billy Higgins, Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy and Charles Davis added on one track. Additional recordings from these sessions were released on New York City R&B in 1971 and Cell Walk for Celeste in 1988.

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "The two most intriguing performances are versions of Mercer Ellington's 'Jumpin' Punkins' and 'Things Ain't What They Used to Be' which feature the avant-garde pianist with trumpeter Clark Terry, trombonist Roswell Rudd, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy, baritonist Charles Davis, tenor Archie Shepp, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Billy Higgins. Taylor's jarring comping behind the other soloists is quite interesting and somehow works. 'O.P.' and 'I Forgot' feature Taylor with Neidlinger, drummer Dennis Charles, and (on the latter song) the young Archie Shepp. A good sampler of Cecil Taylor's marathon Candid sessions."^[1]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Cecil Tayor except as indicated

"Jumpin' Punkins" [Take 6] (Mercer Ellington) - 8:15
"O.P." [Take 1] (Buell Neidlinger) - 7:35
"I Forgot" [Take 1] (Cecil Taylor) - 8:34
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" [Take 3] (Ellington, Ted Persons) - 8:55

Recorded Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, January 9 (track 4) & 10 (tracks 1-3), 1961

Personnel[edit]

Cecil Taylor - piano
Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone
Buell Neidlinger - bass
Denis Charles - drums (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
Billy Higgins - drums (track 3)
Clark Terry - trumpet (track 3)
Roswell Rudd - trombone (track 3)
Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone (track 3)
Charles Davis - baritone saxophone (track 3)

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Allmusic Review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1380. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[allmusic-1] Allmusic Review

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1380. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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v t e Cecil Taylor
Discography
Studio albums	Jazz Advance Looking Ahead! Stereo Drive Love for Sale The World of Cecil Taylor Air Cell Walk for Celeste Jumpin' Punkins New York City R&B Unit Structures Conquistador! Cecil Taylor Unit 3 Phasis Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Chinampas In Florescence Momentum Space
Live albums	At Newport Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come Student Studies Praxis The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor Indent Akisakila Solo Spring of Two Blue J's Silent Tongues Dark to Themselves Air Above Mountains Live in the Black Forest One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye Historic Concerts It Is in the Brewing Luminous Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! The Eighth Garden Iwontunwonsi Amewa For Olim Olu Iwa Live in Bologna Live in Vienna Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil In East Berlin Regalia The Hearth Alms/Tiergarten (Spree) Remembrance Pleistozaen Mit Wasser Spots, Circles, and Fantasy Legba Crossing Erzulie Maketh Scent Leaf Palm Hand Looking (Berlin Version) Solo Looking (Berlin Version) The Feel Trio Looking (Berlin Version) Corona Celebrated Blazons 2 Ts for a Lovely T CT: The Dance Project Double Holy House Nailed Melancholy The Tree of Life Always a Pleasure The Light of Corona Almeda Qu'a: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 1 Qu'a Yuba: Live at the Iridium, Vol. 2 Lifting the Bandstand Algonquin Incarnation The Willisau Concert The Owner of the River Bank All the Notes Taylor/Dixon/Oxley The Last Dance
Compilations	Mixed

v t e Archie Shepp
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962) The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963) Four for Trane (1964) Fire Music (1965) On This Night (1965) New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965) Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Mama Too Tight (1966) The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Poem for Malcolm (1969) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970) Coral Rock (1970) Doodlin' (1970) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Bijou (1975) Body and Soul (Horo, 1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Mariamar (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976) Steam (1976) Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977) On Green Dolphin Street (1977) Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978) Lady Bird (1978) Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980) Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980) Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982) Soul Song (1982) Down Home New York (1984) California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985) Little Red Moon (1985) Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987) Splashes (1987) Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988) Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989) Blue Ballads (1995)
New York Contemporary Five	Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Consequences (1963) Rufus (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/ Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
With Cecil Taylor	Air (1960) The World of Cecil Taylor (1960) Cell Walk for Celeste (1961) New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
With others	A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964) Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965) Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969) One Down (Material, 1982) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)
Discography