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Mike Taylor: Pendulum
by Clifford Allen
The jazz world is certainly littered with its share of unheralded greats who died too young, but even in the world of Sonny Clarks and Wardell Grays, there are those whose recorded legacy is almost nil--ever heard of Jack Graham or Ric Colbeck? English pianist and composer Mike Taylor is among the latter category; his two Lansdowne LPs went out of print almost immediately and he was found floating in a London bay in 1969 after years of drug-induced schizophrenia. ...
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