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| Mark Taylor Trio Performance & Canadian CD Release Сalgary house concert provides intimate venue for Canadian Launch of Mark Taylor's Crowdfunded Project December 21, 2011. Doors open at 7pm, Music at 8 and 9:30. Private residence in SW Calgary, Alberta. When Mark Taylor needed funds to complete his third CD, he turned to an unconventional source - friends, family and fans. Working with the fan-funding website RocketHub.com, Mark's project raised enough money to cover duplication and design costs. Taylor celebrates the results of this unusual collaboration at a house concert for At What Age December 21st in Calgary, Alberta following the official release last spring at Cornelia St. Cafe in NYC. Joining him at this intimate venue overlooking the Calgary skyline will be Aaron Young on guitar and Simon Fisk at the bass. One of the few performers to successfully integrate the notoriously difficult French Horn into jazz and improvised music, Mark has performed and recorded with an array of modern giants including: Max Roach, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Henry Threadgill. At What Age also showcases Taylor's compositions for jazz quartet and features two pieces that include spoken word performances. "I see myself as a storyteller, " Mark says. "I am a composer and performer and I've always felt that a good concert would take listeners on a journey. That you can, in fact, present much more challenging information if there's some sort of narrative involved, whether or not it is explicitly stated. In my writing, I like to create a mood, a feeling in the band and then use my instruments to elaborate, embellish that mood. To use instrumental colour and timbre and range as characters to construct a musical story and allow the listener a little glimpse into the universe that I inhabit." Taylor's Horn sound has been described as "rapturous" and "golden" (Coda Magazine); "as fluid and limpid as (the) flute, and as gnarly as (the) alto." (JazzTimes). His innovative playing has won him recognition by such legendary artists as Max Roach, who said, "Mark Taylor is a virtuoso instrumentalist...there is no one dealing with the french horn or the music the way Mark is doing." At What Age will be available at the performance, online and at all major retailers worldwide. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |