JAMES Taylor, one of Britain’s finest jazz organists, will bring his jazz pop crossover outfit to Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre on Friday.
Taylor has taken his trademark howling Hammond organ sound to the masses for over 25 years with no sign of slowing down.
The band’s relentlessly entertaining tunes take inspiration from the rare-groove style funk, and boogaloo funk of the 60s and 70s.
After the collapse of mod legends The Prisoners in the 1980s, and before moving to Sweden, James recorded some demos with brother David on guitar, the bass player from The Prisoners, and a drummer from down the road, and thus The James Taylor Quartet was born.
It was the James Taylor Quartet’s fired-up signature tune, the theme from 1970s American cop show Starsky and Hutch, that cemented their reputation as masters of acid jazz, while their psychedelic and free-form jazz all added something to the band’s distinctive sound.
From the outset they were audacious and totally independent-minded – and Taylor has never stopped pushing the boundaries.
Their album Closer to the Moon, saw Taylor melding a marriage of classical instrumentation to give a more considered touch to his own compositions and delivering a range of juicy new jazz flavours.
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