Editing Cecil Taylor (section)

== Late 1960s and 1970s ==
Taylor began to perform solo concerts in the latter half of the 1960s. The first known recorded solo performance was "Carmen With Rings" (59 minutes) in [[De Doelen]] concert hall in [[Rotterdam]] on July 1, 1967. Two days earlier, Taylor had played the same composition in the [[Amsterdam Concertgebouw]]. Many of his later concerts were released on album and include ''[[Indent (album)|Indent]]'' (1973), side one of ''[[Spring of Two Blue J's|Spring of Two Blue-J's]]'' (1973), ''[[Silent Tongues]]'' (1974), ''[[Garden (album)|Garden]]'' (1982), ''[[For Olim]]'' (1987), ''[[Erzulie Maketh Scent]]'' (1989), and ''[[The Tree of Life (Cecil Taylor album)|The Tree of Life]]'' (1998).<ref>[http://kathleen.frederator.com/post/5406913931/cecil-taylor-unit-spring-of-two-blue-js Cecil Taylor Unit Spring of Two Blue-J's @ kathleen.frederator Tumblr] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604111959/http://kathleen.frederator.com/post/5406913931/cecil-taylor-unit-spring-of-two-blue-js|date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> He began to garner critical and popular acclaim, playing for [[Jimmy Carter]] on the [[White House]] Lawn,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://jazztimes.com/features/george-wein-a-great-day-in-washington/|title=George Wein: A Great Day in Washington |last=Chinen|first=Nate|work=[[JazzTimes]]|access-date=April 6, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> lecturing as an [[artist-in-residence]] at universities, and eventually being awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/cecil-p-taylor/|title=Cecil P. Taylor|website=GF.org|access-date=April 6, 2018}}</ref>

In 1976, Taylor directed a production of [[Adrienne Kennedy]]'s ''[[A Rat's Mass]]'' at [[La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club]] in the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village of Manhattan]]. His production combined the original script with a chorus of orchestrated voices used as instruments. [[Jimmy Lyons]], [[Rashid Bakr (musician)|Rashid Bakr]], [[Andy Bey]], [[Karen Borca]], [[David S. Ware]] and [[Raphe Malik]] performed in the production as the Cecil Taylor Unit, among other musicians and actors.<ref>La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. [http://catalog.lamama.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/1586 "Production: ''Rat's Mass, A'' (1976)". Accessed August 8, 2018.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082108/http://catalog.lamama.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/1586 |date=May 17, 2018 }}</ref>