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Unit Structures (album) by Cecil Taylor 

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Unit Structures
Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor (1966)
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 47 votes)
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Accolades: Top 20 albums of 1966 (14th)

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Unit Structures is an album by Cecil Taylor. It is ranked number 1,486 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 672 from 24 greatest album charts.

Unit Structures is ranked number 14 in the best albums of 1966 and number 134 in the best albums of the 1960s.

In total, there are 11 music albums by Cecil Taylor which appear in the greatest album charts and Unit Structures is ranked as the best.

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1.Steps
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2.Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure)
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3.Unit Structure/As Of A Now/Section
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4.Tales (8 Whisps)
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated.)

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From thejoj96 12/29/2012 06:25
I love free/avant garde jazz but I hate this. It sounds like a fat neckbearded /b/tard taking a shit into a sock and cumming inside it at the same time. I'm going to go listen to The Shape of Jazz to Come to get this album out of my head.
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It shouldn't work, but it does.
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I can't explain it, but it works.
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