Mark Taylor

About Mark Taylor

Main Role Composer
Tagline Music that makes you say, "WOW! What..?"
Description Mark Taylor was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1961. He started playing piano at age six, singing in the Chattanooga Boy Choir at seven and took up the clarinet at nine, later switching to bass ...Read more
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  • Jeff Dayton-Johnson of AllAboutJazz.com Aug. 29, 2012
    “Live at the Freight”, jazz review by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
    Live at the Freight chronicles a June 2011 date at the venerable Freight & Salvage coffeehouse in Berkeley, California, co-led by tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones and French horn and mellophone player Mark Taylor. The compositions, all originals and mostly quite good, are split between the two leaders. The first slightly unusual twist to the quartet is the presence of the French horn, rather than a trumpet. Saxophonist Jones makes the case for the French horn this way: "Trumpeters don't go ... (Read More)
  • Scott Albin of JazzTimes.com Aug. 28, 2012
    Jazz Reviews: Live at the Freight-- Jessica Jones & Mark Taylor
    It's quite apparent that this quartet reached an exceptional level of cohesiveness by the end of its 2011 California tour, as can be heard on this CD recorded live at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, CA. It helps that the co-leaders, tenor saxophonist Jessica Jones and French horn player Mark Taylor, have similar backgrounds, and that bassist John Shifflet and drummer Jason Lewis have played together in various contexts for 25 years. Jones and Taylor both participated in the ... (Read More)
  • Farrell Lowe of AllAboutJazz.com July 25, 2003
    “Circle Squared”, jazz review by Farrell Lowe
    How often do you hear the French horn used in a jazz context as a solo instrument—especially a modern jazz context? Not often! Mark Taylor's playing brought new colors and subtle nuance to Muhal Richard Abrams' Blu Blu Blu album back in 1990, and in '92 he contributed to the remarkable Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra's Flux. He was a integral part of the Ebony Brass Quintet '95 record Brand New Bag —which in many ways mirrored the concepts of the World Saxophone Quartet and Lester Bowie'... (Read More)
  • Don Williamson of Jazzreview.com May 8, 2003
    Circle Squared by Mark Taylor - jazzreview.com
    Despite its distinctive mellow tone--or perhaps because of it--the french horn has few practitioners in jazz. Those few like Julius Watkins or Vincent Chancey have become champions of the instrument as they have contributed to some of the more advanced recordings like those of Gil Evans, Lester Bowie or Henry Threadgill. Mark Taylor has been as steadfast in his dedication to the instrument as well, to the extent that he has once again released a CD on which the french horn is the lead inst... (Read More)