Mike Taylor - Trio, Quartet & Composer Revisited (2021)

Tracklist

01. All The Things You Are
02. Just A Blues
03. While My Lady Sleeps
04. The End Of A Love Affair
05. Two Autumns
06. Guru
07. Stella By Starlight
08. Abena
09. A Night In Tunisia
10. Passing The Time
11. Pressed Rat And Warthog
12. Those Were The Days



When on January 20 1969 Mike Taylor was pulled from the River Thames – shoeless, alone, confused, ultimately drowned by his own hand – the young pianist and composer was only 31. A cynic might say that hindsight is a wonderful thing and that it was only years later, when fans began to speculate on the fatal glamour of an artist who died so young, that fellow musicians began to recollect him as a genius of modern music. At the time, they might well have thought of him – and been quite justified in so thinking – as a helpless, self-destructive eccentric, lost to drugs and delusions, hampered maybe by the thought (he had been a national service officer in the Royal Air Force) that he was just a little superior to everyone else. The evidence, though, is that fellow-musicians did recognise something special in Taylor, even if it was never fully achieved.

Mike Taylor - piano
Dave Tomlin - soprano sax
Tony Reeves - double bass
Jon Hiseman - drums

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