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Sam Taylor: My Future Just Passed
ByWith bassist Aiden O'Donnell and drummer Taro Okomoto, Taylor explores some of the lesser-played American Songbook gems: the title tune, "Love Me Or Leave Me," "She's Funny That Way," Rodgers and Harts' "You Are Too Beautiful," along with Thelonious Monk's "Eronel" and Sonny Rollins' (there's that name again) "Why Don't I." Taylor plays with a grace and beautiful deliberation, and it sounds as if he knows the lyrics to these tunes that unfold like good short stories. His trio matesespecially on the more up-tempo tunesplay it with a loose, ramshackle elan, giving the set a spontaneous feel, giving the leader lots of room to roam free with the melodies.
Taylor adds a couple of his own tunes to the batch of standards. "Do Something" is a beautiful late night ballad, sparely accompanied, and "T.O.'s Blues," the set's closer bumps and rumbles and rolls, a raw and Rollins-esque wrap up to a fine debut.
Track Listing
Love Me Or Leave Me; My Future Just Passed; Do Something; She's Funny That Way; Why Don't I; Mean To Me; Eronel; You Are Too Beautiful; T.O.'s Blues.
Personnel
Sam Taylor
saxophone, tenorSam Taylor: tenor saxophone; Aidan O'Donnell: bass; Taro Okamoto: drums.
Album information
Title: My Future Just Passed | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Cellar Live
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Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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