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rdf:langString Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Villingen, Germany, on September 14, 1980 and released on the MPS label. The album features eight solo piano performances by Taylor. According to the album notes, Taylor arrived at the MPS studio on Friday, September 12, and practiced five hours (following a flight from New York and a three hour drive). The next day, he practiced nine hours, and the following day practiced eight hours, then participated in the recording session, which lasted three hours. As he was leaving the studio following the session, he wrote in the guest book: "FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!" The following comments by Taylor appear on the album jacket: The whole question of "freedom" has been misunderstood, by those on the outside and even by some of the musicians in "the movement." If a man plays for a certain amount of time - scales, licks, what have you - eventually a kind of order asserts itself. Whether he chooses to notate that personal order or engage in polemics about it, it's there. That is, if he's saying anything in his music. There is no music without order - if that music comes from a man's innards. But that order is not necessarily related to any single criterion of what order should be as imposed from the outside. This is not a question, then, of "freedom" as opposed to "nonfreedom", but rather it is a question of recognizing ideas and expressions of order.