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January 2008
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Jim Mullen's Organ Trio with Stan Sulzmann
Renato D'Aiello International Quintet
Trevor Watkis Quartet
Andy Sheppard and the New Quintet
David Torn's Prezens
Bourne, Davis, Kane
Matana Roberts
Eddie Parker's Mister Vertigo
John Taylor Trio
Kit Downes Trio
Phil Robson Quartet featuring Dave Liebman
Will Butterworth Trio
Richard Fairhurst Trio
Julie Sassoon/Lothar Ohlmeier

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January 2008 gig reviews by Chris Parker

John Taylor Trio

with special guest Julian Arguelles

Monday 21 January

Currently celebrating his 65th birthday, pianist John Taylor attracted his customary SRO audience Õ liberally sprinkled with musicians Õ to four sets of his unique music, to perform which his regular trio (rhythm section bassist Palle Danielsson and drummer Martin France) was joined by tenor/soprano player Julian Arg®elles.

At once robust and delicate, Taylor's music is as firmly anchored in what might loosely be termed the European tradition as in blues and jazz, and in Danielsson and France, he has found natural partners who, like him, appear to be more interested in creating dancing rhythms and surging waves of music rather than in straightforwardly propulsive swing.

France, in particular, seldom states but more often implies the time underpinning Taylor's pieces, skittering across the band sound, and Danielsson's singing, sonorous bass contributes at least as much to the group's texture as to its forward momentum; it is Taylor himself, though, who defines said sound, his piano by turns vigorous and sprightly, rapturously yearning and plangent, but always powerfully assured.

Arg®elles's playing, lyrical and eloquent, seems to bubble up from within him like water from an underground stream Õ overall, this was memorable music flawlessly performed by four masters, and it clearly entranced a packed club.

 

 

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