Taylor, Mike - Trio vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
28-DCCK4539721.1
Mike Taylor – piano
John Hiseman - drums
Ron Rubin – bass
Jack Bruce - bass
Mike Taylor was a very early, avant-garde/Brit-jazz pianist and composer who is barely remembered at all for his two incredibly rare albums (this, recorded in the summer of 1966, is the last of the two).
This is the first-ever vinyl reissue of this album, out of print for almost six decades, it features great players who were dilligent and tuned into Mike’s unique vision! An ESSENTIAL release for Brit-jazz fans.
"This...is state-of-the-art British piano-trio music from the 1960s that was never recognised for its merits at the time. Mike Taylor died, probably by his own hand, at age 31 in 1969, having realised a fraction of his potential as a composer and player, and written for the New Jazz Orchestra, singer Norma Winstone and the rock band Cream. Cream's singer and bassist Jack Bruce and Ron Rubin are on acoustic bass here, with Jon Hiseman on drums, a line-up that highlights the close links between 1960s Britain's creative rock and R&B scenes and the jazz of the time. Taylor is a highly rhythmic pianist whose dense chord clusters often travel in tandem with Hiseman's sensitive and flexible percussion.
His handling of standards such as All the Things You Are is enigmatically fascinating, while his own rhapsodically wayward Just a Blues is a lot more than just a blues. And the improvisation against Hiseman's brushes and Bruce's emphatically voluble bass on While My Lady Sleeps is the kind of extended long narrative on a standard that Bill Evans was feted for. A unique and very affecting set."-John Fordham/The Guardian, UK
- LabelDecca UK
- UPC602445397211