Martin Taylor - Best of Martin Taylor
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Artist: Martin TaylorEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-10-31
Music Label: P3 Music
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- That's the Way Of the World
- Kiss And Tell
- Garden Of Dreams
- Chaff And Grain
- Hymn A L'Amour
- Midnight At the Oasis
- True
- Years Apart
- The Valley
- Going Home Again
- Kwame
- Tennessee Waltz
- La Questa
- Cotton Tail
- The Odd Couple
- Chez Fernand
- The Kraken
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Undecided
- Nuages
- Musette For a Magpie
- No Pedestrians
- My Romance
- I Got Rhythm
- Change Of Heart
- Johnny & Mary
Music reviews of Best of Martin Taylor
Music Review: Surely not his best?
Rating: 3 Stars
This double CD set is billed as the Best of Martin Taylor as selected by himself. Well, all I can say is that his skill as a guitarist greatly exceeds his taste in music if he thinks this is his best stuff.
I had heard Taylor playing some great guitar on the BBC's Big Band Special, and knowing that he was also Stephane Grappelli's guitarist for some years, I was sure that he had some great material recorded.
But the first of the two CDs is dreadful, as he plays mostly turgid Sleep Aid music with a band that seems to consist of a Kenny G. clone and a metronome.
The second CD is much better and if you can get a copy of this cheap, then probably worth the price of admission on its own, though I am not so sure that the almost eight minute version of the theme tune from the Odd Couple in which Taylor plays in a rather Grant Green-ish mode ought to be included, or The Kraken which I just don't like.
Undecided, the only track that features Stephane Grappelli is possibly the best of the lot, but there are some excellent numbers from the albums Solo, which as the name suggests, is solo guitar music and from Spirit of Django. The rendition of I Got Rhythm is very fine and Musette for a Magpie is just wonderful.
I rather think that the 1998 album Celebrating Grappelli, made by Martin Taylor and his Spirit of Django Band on Grappelli's death, and featuring the violinist in three overdubbed tracks plus in some earlier duets may actually be a better buy.
Verdict: Terrific guitarist, but questionable choice of material.
Description of Best of Martin Taylor
2 CD set. The definitive 26 track retrospective from the greatest jazz guitarist of his generation. This magnificent collection includes tracks from Martin Taylor's recordings on Sony Jazz as well as the highlights from his 10 year output on the Linn Records label, plus the pick of his recordings for the P3 Music label. Guests include violin legend Stephane Grappelli and award winning jazz vocalist Claire Martin. This album includes works from his very first solo recording up to his most recent album as well as collaborations with saxophonists Denys Baptiste and Kirk Whalum. At such an attractive price this 2 CD set will surely be one of the key jazz titles in the run-up to Christmas. Guitar Label. 2005.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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