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John Taylor's Jazz Caricatures: Charlie Parker
by John Taylor
About John Taylor For me, art and music flow into a creative confluence. Encouraged by my family to draw and play the drums at an early age, I continue to find expression in these art forms. Motivation for a career in art and music developed in the 1960's as I observed ...
John Taylor: Whirlpool
by John Kelman
For his follow-up to the remarkable Angel of the Presence (Cam Jazz, 2006), John Taylor continues to mine the strong chemistry between himself, bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Martin France. It's a more balanced set this time around, with three of the pianist's own compositions alongside three by longtime musical compatriot Kenny Wheeler, one jazz standard ...
John Taylor: Whirlpool
by Martin Gladu
John Taylor is the pianist of weightlessness. Although overly simple, this aphoristic description of the English virtuoso's dense yet liberated musical discourse renders justice not only to its inherent quality, but to the effect it imparts to listeners. Suspended above an evanescent pulse, swift, jolted rhythms loose their grip; upwardly clouting modulating, mellifluous aural jaunts of ...
Pure and Simple
By John Taylor
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: O; Pure and Simple; Quatorze; Siren Songs; Soldiering On; Windfall.
Whirlpool
By John Taylor
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Consolation; For Ada; Nicolette; The Woodcocks; I Loves You Porgy; Everybody's Song But My Own; In The Bleak Midwinter.
Guildhall Big Band with Special Guest John Taylor: Pure and Simple
by John Kelman
It would be easy to call Pure and Simple a John Taylor project, since all the charts are his and he's a featured soloist on every track. But, as was the case with the Australian Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra's The Mothership Plays the Music of Mike Nock (Jazzgroove, 2006), that would be a mistake. As part of ...
Angel of the Presence
By John Taylor
Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Up Too Late; Dry Stone; In Cologne; Sweet Dulcinea; Vaguely Asian; Fable; Afterthought; Intro To No Particular Song.
John Taylor: Angel of the Presence
by John Kelman
British pianist John Taylor has been an active player since the late 1960s with a range of partners including trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, reedman John Surman and drummer Peter Erskine. But, excluding his Azimuth trio with Wheeler and singer Norma Winstone, he has put out few releases as a leader until the beginning of this decade. Still, ...
John Taylor: Angel of the Presence
by AAJ Staff
English pianist John Taylor, who's now in his mid-60s, has worked with a variety of partners on the ECM label. For a while there, he seemed to have nestled comfortably into a particular vibe, generally sounding quiet and lyrical, soft and elastic, not ever really crossing the line. He was quite reliable for that sort of ...
John Taylor: Angel of the Presence
by Martin Gladu
The title sums this record up perfectly. Presence can be defined as the feeling of being close to someone or something, sometimes of a supernatural order; and angels, symbols of spiritual elevation and purity, are ethereal heavenly beings. English pianist/composer John Taylor has succeeded in crystallizing the two not only in a poetic title, but also ...
