[Dixielandjazz] Sam "The Man" Taylor was Sol Yaged!!! 88 today

[Marek Boym]

Hi,
I may be wrong, but I don't think Sam "The Man" ever played trad(he
might have on occasion).  But then, I didn't know he played r&r,
either.  I've heard him in swing settings, using some more modern
devices as well, but without being a real bopper.
Cheers

On 14 December 2010 06:35, J. D. Bryce <brycejd at comcast.net> wrote:
> Sam "The Man" Taylor, who passed last week put out an extraordinary album in
> 1957.  It was called "Blue Mist" and included 12 wonderfulk version of old
> ballads: Harlem Nocturne, As Time Goes By, Indian Summer, Don't Take Your
> Love From Me, the Very Thought of You and others.  It is just a wonderful
> record.  I later bought in on CD.
>
> His sound was alternately brash, sensuous and lushly romantic on these
> ballads.  As a teen, I'd put on that record, turn down the lights, put my
> arm around some pretty young thing and let Taylor nudge us to heaven.  Aaah,
> the old days.
>
> Back in the 1950s as Rock n Roll came in, teenage tenor guys like myself had
> several idols: King Curtis, Sam Butera, Sam Taylor and Boots Randolph.
> Curtis had this tight pecky sound backing up the Coasters on Yakety-Yak and
> others tunes. Taylor was the featured rock soloist with the Allan Freed
> Shows in New York.  Butera was changing the tenor sax world with his buzzing
> driving solos out of Louis Prima's Band and Randolph was ripping it up
> backing up Brenda Lee's up tunes.  His solos on Jambalaya are hot, and
> driving.
>
> I hadn't known that Taylor played trad, but I'm not surprised.  He was a
> much better musician than peoiple gave him credit for being.  I'm saddened
> by his passing.
>
> Jack Bryce
> One of Sheik Littlefield's
> DC Minions
>
>
>
>
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