Garden is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Basel Switzerland, November 16, 1981, and released on the Hat Hut label.
The album features seven solo performances by Taylor on a Bösendorfer grand piano and was originally released as a double LP in 1982 and then rereleased as two single CDs entitled Garden Part 1 and Garden Part 2 in 1990.
Taylor is in full heat, flailing, banging, slashing out chords and high register trills with studied abandon and a careful attention to detail.
Rooted in blues and barrelhouse in some spots and in gagaku and kabuki theater in others, while in still others the classical ballet, Taylor's playing style opens itself to embrace all of the above and spit them back out as part of his own musical iconography...
This mature phase of Taylor's music is still blooming almost 20 years later, and continues to influence, inspire, and provoke.