It is in the Brewing Luminous is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded at Fat Tuesdays, NYC, on February 8 and 9, 1980, and released on the Hat Hut label.

The album features performances by Taylor with Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Alan Silva, Jerome Cooper and Sunny Murray.

"[5] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings commented: "There is a long piano solo... which personifies the new currents of feeling in Taylor's work: small motifs, pensive longer lines and the familiar thunder realigned within an accessible but uncompromised method.

"[3] Writing for All About Jazz, Glenn Astarita called It is in the Brewing Luminous "a stunning glimpse of the pianist's interaction with his then musical soulmate, alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons...

"[6] In another article for the same publication, Robert Spencer wrote: "for all the astonishing fire-breathing quality of this music... it never loses its sense of inner logic or its cataclysmic dramatic power.