Art Taylor
American drummer
Art Taylor
Taylor in a 1963 advertisement for
Gretsch Birth name Arthur S. Taylor Jr. Born (1929-04-06 ) April 6, 1929 New York City, USDied February 6, 1995(1995-02-06) (aged 65) New York City, US Genres Jazz Occupation(s) Musician, composer Instrument Drums
Musical artist
Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer,[ 1] who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".[ 2]
Career
As a teenager, Taylor joined a local Harlem band that featured Sonny Rollins , Jackie McLean and Kenny Drew . After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee (1948), Coleman Hawkins (1950–51), Buddy DeFranco (1952), Bud Powell (1953), George Wallington and Art Farmer (1954), Powell and Wallington again (1954–55), Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd (1956), he formed his own group, Taylor's Wailers.[ 3] Between 1957 and 1963, he toured with Donald Byrd , recorded with Miles Davis , Gene Ammons and John Coltrane , and performed with Thelonious Monk ; Taylor also was a member of the original Kenny Dorham Quartet of 1957.[ 1]
In 1963, Taylor moved to Europe, where he lived mainly in France and Belgium for 20 years, playing with local groups and jazz musicians such as Johnny Griffin , John Bodwin, and with travelling American musicians, such as Woody Shaw during the latter's tenure in Paris.[ 1] Taylor also studied drums in Paris with Kenny Clarke. He returned to the United States to help his mother, who was ill.[ 4] He continued freelancing after returning to the United States, and in 1991 organized a second band called Taylor's Wailers. He died aged 65 in Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan, in 1995.[ 2]
He was the author of Notes and Tones ,[ 1] a 1977 book based on his interviews with other musicians.[ 5] This was, for many musicians, a ground-breaking work, because it presented the interviewees' perspectives on the wider social, political, and economic forces in which they operated – topics normally not mentioned in mainstream coverage of jazz musicians.[ 5]
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Pepper Adams , et al.
With Gene Ammons
The Happy Blues (Prestige, 1956)
Jammin' with Gene (Prestige, 1956)
Funky (Prestige, 1957)
Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (Prestige, 1957)
The Big Sound (Prestige, 1958)
Groove Blues (Prestige, 1958)
Blue Gene (Prestige, 1958)
Boss Tenor (Prestige, 1960)
Velvet Soul (Prestige, 1960 [1964])
Angel Eyes (Prestige, 1960 [1965])
Up Tight! (Prestige, 1961)
Boss Soul! (Prestige, 1961)
With Chris Anderson
With Dorothy Ashby
With Benny Bailey
With Kenny Burrell
With Donald Byrd
With Paul Chambers
With Sonny Clark
With James Clay
With Jimmy Cleveland
With Arnett Cobb
With John Coltrane
With Continuum
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
With Miles Davis
With Walter Davis Jr.
With Kenny Dorham
With Art Farmer
With Tommy Flanagan
With Red Garland
A Garland of Red (Prestige, 1956)
Red Garland Revisited! (Prestige, 1957 [1969])
The P.C. Blues (Prestige 1956–57 [1970])
Red Garland's Piano (Prestige, 1956–57)
Groovy (Prestige, 1956–57)
All Mornin' Long (Prestige, 1957)
Soul Junction (Prestige, 1957)
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige, 1958)
Manteca (Prestige, 1958)
Red in Blues-ville (Prestige, 1959)
High Pressure (Prestige, 1957 [1962])
The Red Garland Trio (Moodsville, 1958 [1960])
All Kinds of Weather (Prestige, 1958)
The Red Garland Trio + Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (Moodsville, 1959)
Halleloo-Y'-All (Prestige, 1960)
With Matthew Gee
With Benny Golson
With Dexter Gordon
With Bennie Green
With Johnny Griffin
With Tiny Grimes
With Steve Grossman
With Gigi Gryce
With Hampton Hawes '
With Ernie Henry
With Elmo Hope and Frank Foster
With Noah Howard
With Milt Jackson
With Thad Jones
With Clifford Jordan
With Duke Jordan
With Ken McIntyre
With Jackie McLean
Lights Out! (Prestige, 1956)
4, 5 and 6 (Prestige, 1956)
McLean's Scene (Prestige, 1957)
Alto Madness (Prestige, 1957)
Strange Blues (Prestige, 1957)
A Long Drink of the Blues (Prestige, 1957)
Makin' the Changes (Prestige, 1957 [1959])
Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note, 1959)
Capuchin Swing (Blue Note, 1960)
With Thelonious Monk
With Lee Morgan
With Oliver Nelson
With Cecil Payne
With Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1954)
Bud Powell Trio (Roost, 1953)
Bud Powell's Moods (Verve, 1954)
The Lonely One... (Verve, 1955)
Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell (Verve, 1955)
Strictly Powell (RCA, 1956)
Swingin' with Bud (RCA, 1956)
Bud Plays Bird (Blue Note, 1957)
Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) (Blue Note, 1957)
The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5) (Blue Note, 1958)
Live at Birdland (Queen-disk, recorded 1953)
Three Nights at Birdland (SSJ, 2017; recorded 1953)
With Julian Priester
With Dizzy Reece
With Charlie Rouse
With Sahib Shihab
With Horace Silver
With Jimmy Smith
With Johnny "Hammond" Smith
With Louis Smith
With Sonny Stitt
With Idrees Sulieman , Webster Young , John Coltrane , and Bobby Jaspar
With Buddy Tate
With Clark Terry
With Toots Thielmans
With Stanley Turrentine
With Mal Waldron
With Julius Watkins and Charlie Rouse
With Randy Weston
With Lem Winchester
With Kai Winding & J. J. Johnson
With Frank Wright
Bibliography
References
^ a b c d Colin Larkin , ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books . p. 434. ISBN 1-85227-937-0 .
^ a b Watrous, Peter (February 7, 1995), "Art Taylor, 65, Jazz Drummer Who Inspired Young Musicians" , The New York Times .
^ Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007), The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz , p. 637. Oxford University Press .
^ "Eric in The Evening; Art Taylor" . Openvault.wgbh.org . 1994. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
^ a b Lewis, George E. (2008). A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music . University of Chicago Press. p. xxviii.
^ "Mad About Tadd - Continium | Songs, Reviews, Credits" . AllMusic . Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
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