{"title":"Mike Taylor Quartet","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritish jazz composer and pianist. \r\n\r\nBorn: 1 June 1938 in Ealing, London, England, UK. \r\nDied: 19 January 1969 in London, England, UK (aged 30). \r\n\r\nTalented jazz pianist, and band leader of trio, quartet, and quintet. Sadly drowned in the River Thames. \r\n\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"preparation","title":"Preparation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeaturing Mike Taylor (piano), Dave Tomlin (soprano saxophone), Tony Reeves (double bass) and Jon Hiseman (drums), this is the first ever release of a newly discovered tape of this legendary British jazz quartet’s final rehearsal before going into the studio to make their fabled Pendulum album in October 1965. Recorded in Taylor’s grandparents’ London living room by Reeves, it’s has striking presence and immediacy, and will fascinate all admirers of this most enigmatic of composers and musicians. It comes in a gatefold sleeve, with a large-format booklet describing Taylor’s life and work, full of rare images and memorabilia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sunbeam","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP.","offer_id":50384042754379,"sku":"1119787","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/efd268c8-8266-438e-99ad-6f7e341a39c2_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726284304"},{"product_id":"trio-6","title":"Trio","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lost set of modernist piano jazz from the British scene of the late 60s - very much in the mode of the best American work of the time by pianists like Steve Kuhn or Don Friedman. Taylor's got an incredible touch on the keys -- a post-Bill Evans mode that uses space as much a sound, and which paints in broad colours and tones that seem to glisten in their own unique place in the musical spectrum. The sound is free, but never too \"out\" -- and the trio performs a number of strong originals like \"Just A Blues\", \"Two Autumns\", \"Guru\", and \"Abena\" -- plus completely transformed versions of \"Stella By Starlight\" and \"All The Things You Are\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audio Clarity","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50487056662859,"sku":"2029443","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Trio_e6fea09a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727619851"},{"product_id":"pendulum-1","title":"Pendulum","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoly grail rarity and brit jazz gem finally gets reissued by Decca. \u003cem\u003ePendulum\u003c\/em\u003e, the stunning debut album by Mike Taylor Quartet, was recorded for legendary British jazz producer Denis Preston at the famed Lansdowne Studios. The album is split between reworked standards arranged by Taylor on Side A (including a radical rework of Dizzy Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia) and original compositions from Taylor on Side B. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe tragic story of Taylor’s life and death, aged 30, after he walked into the sea in 1969, cut short the life of one of the key players in the development of British jazz and whose story reads like that of a grand opera, embracing exceptional music, high drama, mental illness, drugs and death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePendulum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (first released in 1966) has been remastered at Gearbox Records' Studios, London, with the high resolution digital source files, taken from the original master tapes, transferred to a Studer C37 reel-to-reel tape machine and mastered using an all-valve analogue mastering chain, including an ex-Decca Studio 3-band EQ and Telefunken U73b compressors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decca","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51904319193419,"sku":"R3869-0741","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Pendulum_packshot_sticker.jpg?v=1748380492"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_a95858fb_thumbnail_4096_97fdd897-1dcd-415a-97d1-2acb1ac8856a.jpg?v=1726284283","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/mike-taylor-quartet.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}