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VA - Mike Taylor Remembered (2007) [Third Stream, Experimental Big Band]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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VA - Mike Taylor Remembered (2007) [Third Stream, Experimental Big Band]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Dave Gelly, Jon Hiseman, Henry Lowther, Barbara Thompson, Norma Winstone
Album: Mike Taylor Remembered
Genre: Third Stream, Experimental Big Band
Label: Dusk Fire Records
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Half Blue/Pendulum (Taylor) - 7:30
  2. I See You (Taylor) - 3:12
  3. Son of Red Blues/Brown Thursday (Taylor) - 5:09
  4. Song of Love (Taylor) - 5:08
  5. Folk Dance No.2 (Taylor) - 2:21
  6. Summer Sounds, Summer Sights (Taylor) - 4:30
  7. The Land of Rhyme in Time (Taylor) - 1:45
  8. Timewind (Taylor) - 1:52
  9. Jumping Off the Sun (Taylor) - 3:12
  10. Black and White Raga (Taylor) - 11:05

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No matter that Mike Taylor's life story is one of British jazz's most tragic -- the ease with which his greatest accomplishments have slipped into obscurity (buried beneath the fanfare that accompanies his work with Cream) is also an unforgivable lapse, as the story of this album proves. Mike Taylor Remembered was recorded in June 1973, four years after his death, by a clutch of musicians who were closest to him either musically or personally: Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Dave Gelly, Jon Hiseman, Henry Lowther, Barbara Thompson, and others. Ten classic Taylor compositions were revisited under the eye of producer Denis Preston, and the result was both startling (for those who didn't know Taylor's music) and spooky (for those who did). But hopes for a swift -- or even a belated -- release came to naught, and it was 2007, a full 34 years later, before this magical performance was finally shown the light of day. It remains astonishing, ranging across the full spectrum of Taylor's catalog, with all the contributors playing their parts with astounding strength and vivaciousness. Neil Ardley's woodwind score for "Song of Love" is spellbinding, while the introduction of a synthesizer to the brew -- an instrument that Taylor would surely have seized upon -- makes for some truly magical moments, not least of all when the instrument duets with vocalist Norma Winstone across "Summer Sounds, Summer Sights." Liner notes by the clarinetist and saxophonist on the sessions, Dave Gelly, bring added immediacy to the listening experience, and the entire package is nothing short of a sheer delight. If only Taylor's own recordings could be accorded such sympathetic treatment.
Review by Dave Thompson

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