Art Taylor

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Birth name Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. Genres Jazz Name Art Taylor		Instruments Drums Occupation(s) Musician, composer

Born April 6, 1929 New York City ( 1929-04-06 ) Died February 6, 1995, New York City, New York, United States Books Notes and Tones: Musician-to-musician Interviews Movies Jazz Icons: Dexter Gordon: Live in '63 & '64 Albums AT's Delight, Red Garland's Piano, Taylor's Wailers, Taylor's Tenors, Soultrane Similar People Paul Chambers, Red Garland, Doug Watkins, Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd

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Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".

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Career

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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. Between 1957 and 1963 he toured with Donald Byrd, recorded with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and performed with Thelonious Monk; he also was a member of the original Kenny Dorham Quartet of 1957.

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In 1963 he 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. He returned to the United States to help his mother, who was ill. He continued freelancing after returning to the United States, and in 1993 organized a second band called Taylor's Wailers. He died in Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan.

He is the author of Notes and Tones, a book based on his interviews with other musicians.

As leader

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Taylor's Wailers (Prestige, 1957)

Taylor's Tenors (Prestige, 1959)

A.T.'s Delight (Blue Note, 1960)

Mr. A.T. (Enja, 1991)

Wailin' At The Vanguard (Verve, 1991)

As sideman

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With Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1956)

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

My Romance (Vee-Jay, 1960 [1983]),

With Dorothy Ashby

In a Minor Groove (New Jazz, 1958)

Hip Harp (Prestige, 1958)

With Benny Bailey

Big Brass (Candid, 1960)

With Kenny Burrell

All Night Long (Prestige, 1956)

All Day Long (Prestige, 1957)

2 Guitars – with Jimmy Raney (Prestige, 1957)

Just Wailin' (New Jazz, 1958) with Herbie Mann, Charlie Rouse and Mal Waldron

With Donald Byrd

2 Trumpets (Prestige, 1956) – with Art Farmer

Jazz Eyes (Regent, 1957) – with John Jenkins

Off to the Races (Blue Note, 1958)

Byrd in Hand (Blue Note, 1959)

With Paul Chambers

Bass on Top (1957)

With Sonny Clark

Sonny's Crib (Blue Note, 1957)

With James Clay

The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces!!!! (Riverside, 1960) – with David "Fathead" Newman

With Jimmy Cleveland

A Map of Jimmy Cleveland (Mercury, 1959)

With Arnett Cobb

Party Time (Prestige, 1959)

More Party Time (Prestige, 1960)

Movin' Right Along (Prestige, 1960)

With Pepper Adams, et al.

Baritones and French Horns (1957)

With John Coltrane

Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)

Trane's Blues (1957)

The Dealers (1957)

Black Pearls (1958)

Lush Life (1958)

The Believer (1958)

Settin' the Pace (1958)

The Last Trane (1958)

Jazz Way Out (1958)

Traneing In (1958)

Soultrane (1958)

Giant Steps (1959)

Bahia (1964)

Alternate Takes (1975)

With Continuum

Mad About Tadd (1980, Palo Alto Records)

With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Goin' to the Meeting (Prestige, 1962)

With Miles Davis

Miles Ahead (1957)

With Walter Davis Jr.

Davis Cup (1959)

With Kenny Dorham

Show Boat (1960)

With Art Farmer

The Art Farmer Septet (Prestige, 1953–54)

When Farmer Met Gryce (Prestige, 1955) – with Gigi Gryce

With Tommy Flanagan

Thelonica (Enja, 1982)

With Red Garland

A Garland of Red (Prestige, 1956)

Red Garland Revisited! (Prestige, 1957 [1969])

The P.C. Blues (Prestige 1956–57 [1970])

Groovy (Prestige, 1956–57)

All Mornin' Long (Prestige, 1957)

Soul Junction (Prestige, 1957)

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

Jazz by Gee (Riverside, 1956)

With Benny Golson

Gettin' with It (New Jazz, 1959)

Free (Argo, 1962)

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One Flight Up (Blue Note, 1964)

The Squirrel (Blue Note, 1967 [1997])

A Day in Copenhagen (MPS, 1969) – with Slide Hampton

With Bennie Green

Hornful of Soul (1960)

With Johnny Griffin

Do Nothing 'til You Hear from Me (Riverside, 1963)

With Tiny Grimes

Tiny in Swingville (Swingville, 1959) – with Jerome Richardson

With Gigi Gryce

Jazz Lab (Columbia, 1957) – with Donald Byrd

Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet (Riverside, 1957)

Modern Jazz Perspective (Columbia, 1957) – with Donald Byrd

New Formulas from the Jazz Lab (RCA Victor, 1957) with Donald Byrd

Jazz Lab (Jubilee, 1958) with Donald Byrd

Doin' the Gigi (Uptown, 2011)

With Ernie Henry

Presenting Ernie Henry (Riverside, 1956)

With Elmo Hope and Frank Foster

Hope Meets Foster (Prestige, 1955)

With Milt Jackson

Bags & Flutes (Atlantic, 1957)

With Thad Jones

After Hours (Prestige, 1957)

With Clifford Jordan

Cliff Jordan (Blue Note, 1957)

With Duke Jordan

Flight to Jordan (Blue Note, 1960)

With Ken McIntyre

Looking Ahead (New Jazz, 1960) with Eric Dolphy

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 Lee Morgan

Introducing Lee Morgan (1956)

City Lights (Blue Note, 1957)

Candy (Blue Note, 1957)

With Oliver Nelson

Meet Oliver Nelson (New Jazz, 1959)

With Cecil Payne

Patterns of Jazz (Savoy, 1956)

With The Prestige All Stars

Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (Prestige, 1957)

With Bud Powell

The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1954)

With Julian Priester

Spiritsville (Jazzland, 1960)

With Dizzy Reece

Blues in Trinity (1958)

With Charlie Rouse

Takin' Care of Business (Jazzland, 1960)

With Sahib Shihab

Jazz Sahib (Savoy, 1957)

With Horace Silver

Silver's Blue (Columbia, 1956)

With Jimmy Smith

Damn! (Verve, 1995)

With Johnny "Hammond" Smith

Talk That Talk (New Jazz, 1960)

Open House (Riverside, 1963)

With Louis Smith

Here Comes Louis Smith (Blue Note, 1958)

With Sonny Stitt

Stitt Meets Brother Jack (Prestige, 1962) – with Jack McDuff

With Buddy Tate

Tate-a-Tate (Swingville, 1960) with Clark Terry

With Clark Terry

Top and Bottom Brass (Riverside, 1959)

With Toots Thielmans

Man Bites Harmonica! (Riverside, 1957)

With Stanley Turrentine

ZT's Blues (1961)

With Mal Waldron

Mal-2 (1957)

With Randy Weston

African Cookbook (Polydor [France], 1969)

Niles Littlebig (Polydor [France], 1969)

With Julius Watkins and Charlie Rouse

Les Jazz Modes (Dawn, 1957)

With Kai Winding & J. J. Johnson

The Great Kai & J. J. (Impulse!, 1960)

With Frank Wright

Uhuru na Umoja (America, 1970)

References

Art Taylor Wikipedia

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