It is in the Brewing Luminous is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

 recorded at Fat Tuesdays, NYC, on February 8 & 9, 1980 and released on the Hat Hut

Hathut Records

Hathut Records is a Swiss record label specialising in jazz and contemporary classical music.Founded in 1975 by Werner X. Uehlinger to document the work of saxophonist / trumpeter Joe McPhee...

 label. The album features performances by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons

Jimmy Lyons

Jimmy Lyons was an alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit.-Biography:...

, Ramsey Ameen, Alan Silva

Alan Silva

Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...

, Jerome Cooper

Jerome Cooper

Jerome Cooper is an American free jazz musician. Known as a multi-dimensional drummer, Cooper plays balafon, chirimia and electronic tonal activator in addition to trap drums....

 and Sunny Murray

Sunny Murray

James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.-Biography:...

. The album was originally released as a double LP featuring then rereleased as a single CD.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 states "Not too surprisingly, the playing is quite intense and dense with only a few moments of lyricism popping through. Taylor sounds very much like a human dynamo while Lyons' solos are full of fragile beauty. This is brilliant music that will not sound "safe" or "easy listening" even a century from now".

Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor.

1. "It Is in the Brewing Luminous, Part 1" - 34:59
2. "It Is in the Brewing Luminous, Part 2" - 33:59
   • Recorded at Fat Tuesdays, NYC, on February 8 & 9, 1980

Personnel

• Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Taylor
  Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
  
  : piano
  Piano
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  , vocals
  Vocal music
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• Jimmy Lyons
  Jimmy Lyons
  Jimmy Lyons was an alto saxophone player. He is best known for his long tenure in the Cecil Taylor Unit.-Biography:...
  
  : alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Raphe Malik
  Raphe Malik
  Raphe Malik, born Laurence Mazel was an American jazz trumpeter....
  
  : trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Ramsey Ameen: violin
  Violin
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• Alan Silva
  Alan Silva
  Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...
  
  : bass
  Double bass
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  , cello
  Cello
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• Jerome Cooper
  Jerome Cooper
  Jerome Cooper is an American free jazz musician. Known as a multi-dimensional drummer, Cooper plays balafon, chirimia and electronic tonal activator in addition to trap drums....
  
  : drums
  Drum kit
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  , balaphone
• Sunny Murray
  Sunny Murray
  James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming.-Biography:...
  
  : drums