Regalia (album)

Regalia
Live album by
Released1989
RecordedJune 26, 1988
GenreFree jazz
LabelFMP
Cecil Taylor chronology
In East Berlin
(1988)
Regalia
(1989)
The Hearth
(1988)

Regalia is a live album by Cecil Taylor and Paul Lovens recorded in Berlin on June 26, 1988 as part of month-long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.[1]

In his liner notes, Alexander von Schlippenbach wrote: "Among Lovens' most striking qualities is a special sensitivity and flexibility for grasping what's going on as a pre-condition for his extraordinary quick-wittedness and expertise, which he is prepared to use in each and every way. Also in other respects, being so well-equipped, he can just slide into the playing, pushing, in the way he follows Taylor, allowing the pianist, in his turn to catch hold, and make use of what Lovens has diverted from his own (Taylor's) previous offerings."[2]

  1. ^ Cecil Taylor sessionography accessed 3 September 2009
  2. ^ Regalia (liner notes). Cecil Taylor and Paul Lovens. FMP. 1988. CD 3.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)