Chinampas (album)

Chinampas
Studio album by Cecil Taylor
Released	November 1987 (1987-11)
Recorded	November 16–17, 1987
Genre	Spoken word, free jazz
Length	58:22
Label	Leo
Producer	Cecil Taylor
Cecil Taylor chronology
Tzotzil/Mummers/Tzotzil (1988) Chinampas (1987) Riobec (1989)

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Chinampas is an album by avant-garde jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in which he reads his poetry over the sound of small percussion. The title is an Aztec word that means "floating garden". Taylor's poems are about how he composes music. He composed the album, produced it, and played the instruments (piano, bells, tympani, percussion).

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor

1. – 5.04
2. – 3.43
3. – 5.46
4. – 5.07
5. – 12.30
6. – 9.20
7. – 5.46
8. – 6.56
9. – 3.36

Personnel

• Cecil Taylor – poetry, voice, tympani, bells, percussion