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Sam Taylor

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Patiently and lovingly devotes himself to the song…Nothing but rapt attention to the song, to melody, to the way a great artist can make us feel” – Michael Steinman, Jazz Lives

Hailed by All About Jazz as "wise beyond his years" and "remarkable" by Toronto Music Report, saxophonist Sam Taylor lives and performs in New York City. A Philadelphia native, Taylor is a recording artist on Cellar Live, with an upcoming 2022 release featuring trumpet great, Terell Stafford. In support of his previous recording, Taylor lead his group on a five concert tour of the Pacific Northwest and Canada in January of 2020

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Pleasant Returns

Label: Mind Beach Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Feedback Loop; Ponchatoula Strawberry; Stretch; Any Day Now; Regal Duties; The Penultimate; Barry.

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Ponchatoula Strawberry

Label: Mind Beach Records
Released: 2025

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Article: Album Review

Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns

Read "Pleasant Returns" reviewed by Neil Duggan


This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg. It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of Asheville, North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to New Orleans for the recording. He had previously worked in the city for nearly a decade and notes that “Having not seen or ...

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Sun Prints

Label: ears&eyes Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: In Tongues; For Your Consideration; Ice Bear; Otero Canyon; Time to Spare; Old News; Interlude; Optimal Chunks; You Came Along; Distancing; Happenstance.

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Article: Album Review

Matt Booth: Sun Prints

Read "Sun Prints" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a ...

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Walking On Eggshells

Label: Mind Beach Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Walking On Eggshells; Inferiority Complex; Green Eyed Baby; Ripple; Yuri Gagarin; Meadow's Murmur; Melting Clock; Landline.

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Article: Album Review

Sam Taylor: Let Go

Read "Let Go" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Presenting his third offering from the Cellar Live record label, Harlem-based and Philadelphia native, saxophonist Sam Taylor unleashes an exciting bop-filled package of contemporary jazz covers, making a superb job of interpreting the music of composers such as Benny Golson, Hank Jones, Jule Styne and Jimmy Van Heusen and laying down sturdy new treatments of oft-recorded ...

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Article: Play This!

Sam Taylor: Let Go

Read "Sam Taylor: Let Go" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A very tasteful and swinging version of the Jimmy Van Heusen classic standard “Here's That Rainy Day," from tenor saxophonist Sam Taylor on his third album as leader entitled Let Go featuring trumpeter Terell Stafford and an all-star rhythm section of pianist Jeb Patton, bassist Neal Miner and drummer Willie Jones III. The quintet sets out ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ben Wolfe, Trombone Shorty, Margie Hyams & Mike Dillon

Read "Ben Wolfe, Trombone Shorty, Margie Hyams & Mike Dillon" reviewed by Joe Dimino


We kick off the 788th Episode of Neon Jazz with vibraphonist and Kansas City native Mike Dillon and Punkadelic with music off their 2023 album Inflorescence. We follow that with Punkadelic member Brian Haas of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and their take on The Beatles “Julia" from their last studio album Winterwood Revealed. From there, we ...


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