Olu Iwa is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Berlin, Germany on April 12, 1986, and released on the Soul Note label.
The album features a concert performance by Taylor with Thurman Barker, William Parker and Steve McCall with Earl McIntyre, Peter Brötzmann and Frank Wright added on one track.
The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn states, "The opening 48-minute dialogue included the high-register wailing of tenor saxophonists Peter Brotzmann and Frank Wright and Taylor's undulating answering lines and sprawling solos.
[3] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings commented: "Some of the music... has one reflecting on Taylor's... history: the presence of Barker's marimba harks back to Earl Griffith on the ancient Looking Ahead!, and the small group with horns reminds one of Unit Structures.
Alternately hymnal, purgatorial, intensely concentrated and wildly abandoned, the first theme is a carefully organized yet unfettered piece that again disproves Taylor's isolation...