Taylor's Wailers

1957 studio album by Art Taylor
Taylor's Wailers
Studio album by
Art Taylor
Released1957
RecordedFebruary 25, 1957 (#1, 3–6)
March 22, 1957 (#2)
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length41:00
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7117
ProducerBob Weinstock
Art Taylor chronology
Taylor's Wailers
(1957) 		Taylor's Tenors
(1959)

Taylor's Wailers is the debut album by drummer Art Taylor, released in 1957 on Prestige. It features tracks recorded mainly on February 25, 1957 plus a track from a different session featuring John Coltrane on saxophone.[1]

Reception

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Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
MusicHound Jazz[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide[5]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow singled out the renditions of Bryant's "Cubano Chant" and Monk's "Off Minor" and "Well, You Needn't" for praise, and wrote: "Bryant is the most mature of the soloists, but the three horn players were already starting to develop their own highly individual sounds."[2]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called the album a "well-cooked hard-bop session," and stated that Taylor's playing is "authoritative, although some of his mannerisms leave him a degree short of the single-minded drive of Art Blakey."[4]

A writer for Billboard noted the music's "open, throbbing swing," and commented: "Rouse and... Byrd are in especially fine form; Taylor, his forceful, tasteful self."[6]

Track listing

  1. "Batland" (Lee Sears) – 9:52
  2. "C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath) – 4:43
  3. "Exhibit A" (Sears) – 6:16
  4. "Cubano Chant" (Bryant) – 6:36
  5. "Off Minor" (Monk) – 5:38
  6. "Well You Needn't" (Monk) – 7:55

Personnel

Tracks 1, 3–6

Track 2

References

  1. ^ At JazzDisco
  2. ^ a b AllMusic Review
  3. ^ Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (1998). MusicHound: The Essential Album Guide. Schirmer. p. 1096.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (8th ed.). Penguin. p. 1265.
  5. ^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 645.
  6. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Jazz Albums". Billboard. December 30, 1957. p. 43.
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