ART TAYLOR "A.T.'S DELIGHT" AP, 2LP, 45RPM, 180G, LE, NE, SO, RVG, NEW/SEALED
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ART TAYLOR "A.T.'S DELIGHT"
2008 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "THE BLUE NOTE REISSUES", 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, #558 OF A SOLD-OUT LIMITED EDITION, RECORDED AT RUDY VAN GELDER STUDIO, ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ., ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1960.
"THE BEST ALBUMS FROM LEGENDARY BLUE NOTE RECORDS JAZZ CATALOGUE GET IMPECCABLE AUDIOPHILE TREATMENT BY ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS, CUT AT 45RPM FOR ULTIMATE SOUND QUALITY BY EQUALLY LEGENDARY MASTERING ENGINEERS KEVIN GRAY AND STEVE HOFFMAN AT ACOUSTECH, PRESERVING ALL THE ANALOG GLORY OF THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES TO BRING THESE SESSIONS TO LIFE IN SPECTACULAR FASHION, LIKE THEY DESERVE."
"AS MUCH AS I'D LOVE TO RELAY ALL KINDS OF ANECDOTES ABOUT THE CHALLENGES STEVE HOFFMAN AND KEVIN GRAY ENCOUNTER DURING THE MASTERING SESSIONS, I WITNESS NONE. THESE BOYS KNOW THE SOUND OF THE FACILITY AND THE VAN GELDER MASTERS LIKE THE BACK S OF THEIR HANDS...BACK HOME A MONTH LATER, I UNPACK SOME TEST PRESSINGS CHAD KASSEM HAS SENT ME...I HEAR THE MOST REALISTIC SOUNDING DRUMS EVER REPRODUCED BY MY SYSTEM. IT'S AS THOUGH I'M SITTING AT THE POINT OF CREATION, EXPERIENCING THE SAME HIGH THAT BROUGHT SUCH GIFTED MUSICIANS TOGETHER AS ONE. STEVE HOFFMAN, KEVIN GRAY, CHAD KASSEM, AND DON MACINNIS HAVE DONE RUDY VAN GELDER AND HIS BLUE NOTE ARTISTS PROUD."--JASON VICTOR SERINUS, STEROEPHILE
"SINCE HIS DAYS WITH THE BUD POWELL TRIO, DRUMMER ART TAYLOR WAS AN INVALUABLE MEMBER OF THE BLUE NOTE RECORDING FAMILY. "A.T.'S DELIGHT" IS THE ONLY ALBUM MADE UNDER HIS OWN NAME FOR THE LABEL AND IT IS A REMARKABLE ONE. CHOOSING GREAT COMPOSITIONS BY COLTRANE, MONK, DENZIL BEST AND KENNY DORHAM, TAYLOR ASSEMBLED A GREAT QUINTET FRONTED BY DAVE BURNS AND STANLEY TURRENTINE, OFTEN ADDING "POTAO'S" CONGAS TO THE PROCEEDINGS. THE UNIQUE AND VARIED ARRANGEMENTS AND GREAT PLAYING PAY TRIBUTE TO THE DRUMMER'S EXCEPTIONAL SONG SELECTION."
"ALTHOUGH ART TAYLOR WAS ONE OF THE BUSIEST MODERN SECOND-GENERATION JAZZ DRUMMERS, WORKING IN THE STUDIO WITH COLEMAN HAWKINS, DONALD BYRD, JOHN COLTRANE AND MANY OTHERS, HE ONLY RELEASED FIVE ALBUMS UNDER HIS OWN NAME, OF WHICH "A.T.'S DELIGHT" WAS THE THIRD. AND A DELIGHT IT IS INDEED, BRIGHT AND PERCUSSIVE, AND WHEN CONGA PLAYER CARLOS "POTATO" VALDES JOINS TAYLOR AND PIANIST WYNTON KELLY AND BASSIST PAUL CHAMBERS ON THE THREE CUTS (THELONIOUS MONK'S "EPISTROPHY", "MOVE" AND A TAYLOR CALYPSO-INFLECTED ORIGINAL CALLED "COOKOO AND FUNGI"), THE RHYTHM POCKET OPENS INTO A DEEP BLUE SEA FOR THE HORN MEN (STANLEY TURRENTINE ON TENOR SAX AND DAVE BURNS ON TRUMPET). "MOVE" DOES EXACTLY THAT, IT MOVES, AND AT A BLISTERING PACE. MONK'S "EPISTROPHY", THANKS IN PART TO VALDES, REVEALS ITS RUMBA ROOTS, AND HAS NEVER SOUNDED BRIGHTER. THE SELDOM COVERED COLTRANE COMPOSITION "SYEEDA''S SONG FLUTE' SEEMS LIKEWISE REFRESHED AND REVIVED. THE LONE TAYLOR ORIGINAL, THE DRIVING "COOKOO AND FUNGI", IS AS SHARP AND ALERT AS A KITTEN WALKING FROM A NAP INTO THE SPRING SUN, AND TAYLOR'S DRUM SOLO IS CRISP, EFFICIENT AND SLIDES SEAMLESSLY INTO THE CALYPSO-INFORMED MAIN THEME. "A.T.'S DELIGHT" IS A SOLID OUTING, WITH A WONDERFULLY NERVOUS BUT COMPLETELY FOCUSED ENERGY."--STEVE LEGGETT, ALL MUSIC
1) SYEEDA'S SONG FLUTE 2) EPISTROPHY 3) MOVE 4) HIGH SEAS 5) COOKOO AND FUNGI 6) BLUE INTERLUDE
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