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| Pleasure Seeker |
| Paul Taylor |
első megjelenés éve: 1997
50 perc |
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| (2002)
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| 3.855 Ft
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| 1. | Groove Zone
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| 2. | Pleasure Seeker
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| 3. | Looking for Eve
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| 4. | Dry Your Eyes
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| 5. | Thrive
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| 6. | Deeper
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| 7. | Twilight Ride
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| 8. | Raw Sugar
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| 9. | Allure
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| 10. | Fadeaway
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Jazz / Instrumental Pop, Jazz-Pop, Crossover Jazz
Paul Taylor - Keyboards, Sax (Soprano), Trombone, Sax (Alto)
Brian Monroney Guitar
Chris Maggiore A&R
Dave Way Mixing
Dino Esposito Programming, Engineer, MIDI, Keyboards, Producer, Drum Programming
DJI Pierce Producer, Programming
Matthew Quave Assistant, Assistant Engineer
Oji Pierce Musician, Programming, Producer, Multi Instruments
Raymond Taylor-Smith Mixing, Engineer
Robert Tauro Executive Producer
Scot Hammer Programming, Engineer
Scot Rammer Drum Programming, Keyboards, Engineer, MIDI, Producer
Scott Blockland Mixing
Shelina Wade Vocals (Background)
Steve Hall Mastering
Tracy Lamonica Photography
From his swaying and suggestive onstage body movement to conceptualizing the electro-psychedelic cover art for his latest album Pleasure Seeker (Countdown/Unity), saxman Paul Taylor seems determined to captivate us visually. For his breakthrough hit On the Horn, Taylor gathered some of his existing tunes and sought the production direction of Kazu Matsui; on Pleasure Seeker, Taylor chose a more collaborative approach. For the most part, he started composing the tunes from scratch with the new production team of Dino Esposito (an old college chum of Taylor's) and Scot Rammer. While Taylor's strong sense of melody and lyrical approach to his instrument has been in place since the first project, his new producers give him a unique, atmospheric sonic playground unlike any other heard on smooth jazz radio'part industrial percussion (as on the echoing simulated metal pipe taps on the opener, "Groove Zone"), part electronic new age hypnotism (the dreamy shuffling on the moody "Looking for Eve" recall David Lanz & Paul Speer's classics), and, more to the modern point, modern hip hop meets a dash of stylish 70's soul (including a Fender Rhodes sound on lively funk-based "Thrive"). Taylor also wraps his loose, fluid soprano sound (which ring of the Grover Washington influence) around a wide variety of bass dynamics; the mid-tempo ballad "Raw Sugar" features jungle soundscaping and basslines that croak like a happy frog, while the bass rhythms on "Twilight Ride" are subdued and barely audible, leading to another round of gentle hypnosis. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
Paul Taylor
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Paul Taylor grew up in Denver, where he took up the saxophone at the age of seven. He played in school bands, and in high school joined a Top 40 band called Mixed Company. Jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui and her husband, producer Kazu Matsui, discovered him playing at the Catalina Island Jazz Festival and hired him to play in their band. He spent two years with them, and then Kazu Matsui produced his 1995 debut album, On the Horn, which reached the jazz charts and spawned a radio hit in "Til We Meet Again." Pleasure Seeker, his second album, followed in 1997 and was equally successful. Taylor released his third album, Undercover, on PeakN-Coded Music in February 2000. Also in 2000, he toured as a special guest artist with the Rippingtons. Subsequent albums Hypnotic (2001), Steppin' Out (2003), Nightlife (2005), and Ladies' Choice (2007), all issued by Peak Records, figured high in the contemporary jazz charts, with Ladies' Choice going all the way to number one. Peak released Taylor's eighth album, Burnin', in 2009.
---William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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