Mark Taylor
In 1995 UK drummer Mark Taylor moved to New York at the invitation of US musician Lew Tabackin and ended up staying for more than 25 years! In a long and impressive career his powerful, swinging, playing has been heard alongside the likes of Joe Henderson, Ronnie Scott, George Coleman, Chet Baker, Roy Hargrove, Woody Shaw, Geoff Keezer, Mulgrew Miller, Monty Alexander, Billy Eckstine & Anita O’Day…and you don’t get to play with a team of iconic musicians like that unless you are very, very, good! Having recently returned to the UK, it’s with enormous pleasure that we welcome back to the Club after so many years this wonderful musician with his terrific straight ahead quartet, featuring Nat Steele-vibes & Rob Barron-piano playing the music of renowned US pianist and arranger Cedar Walton (Jazz Messengers, Etta James).
‘There isn’t another drummer since Billy Higgins who can adapt…and create intensity at any dynamic level” Lew Tabackin