One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye

One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
Live album by
Released1980
RecordedJune 14, 1978
VenueLiederhalle/Mozartsaal, Stuttgart
GenreFree jazz
LabelHat Hut
Cecil Taylor chronology
Live in the Black Forest
(1978)
One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
(1980)
Historic Concerts
(1978)
CD Reissue cover

One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 14, 1978 and released on the Hat Hut label. The album features performances by Taylor with Raphe Malik, Jimmy Lyons, Ramsey Ameen, Sirone and Ronald Shannon Jackson. The album was originally released as a triple LP featuring the Cecil Taylor Unit performances (tracks 4-11 all titled "One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye") then rereleased as a double CD with duets by Lyons & Malik and Ameen & Sirone and a solo by Shannon Jackson added and the titles changed to the performers for each track.

On the evening of the concert, the organizers did not allow Taylor to use a high-quality, well-tuned grand piano that remained backstage, locked and covered, stating that it was reserved for classical pianists, and he was forced to use an inferior instrument.