Product Description

2009 album from the veteran British keyboardist and Acid House legend. James Taylor - one of the great instrumentalists of his generation - supplements his trademark howling Hammond sound with grand piano on this new album. New World features 11 original tunes by James (two co-written with guest vocalist Corina Greyson) and features John Parricelli (guitar), Andy McKinney (bass), Adam Betts (drums), Nick Smart (trumpet/flugelhorn), Gareth Lockrane (flutes), and the aforementioned Corina Greyson.

Track Listing

1. Blacksmith
2. Rochester Raining
3. Same Old Fool
4. New World
5. Inner Mystic Love
6. Stonemason
7. Get On Your Feet
8. Blue Lady
9. Hotwire
10. Jazz Caf Theme
11. Milk And Honey

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284638 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Brilliant !
Taylor's driving Hammond organ has been leading the group for nearly twenty years, and the `JTQ' show no signs of slowing down. Their relentlessly entertaining tunes take their inspiration from the rare-groove style funk and boogie-woogie of the sixties and seventies, and they are without a doubt one of the most important jazz-pop crossover bands in British musical history.
Although known primarily as an organist, his Hammond B3 sound establishing him at the forefront of the UK acid jazz movement that issued from the rare-groove jazz-funk craze that swept London in the 1980s, James Taylor describes this album as 'essentially a piano album', and he does indeed play acoustic piano ( but he plays Rhodes and clavinet too) on a number of tracks, occasionally drawing on a broad and eclectic set of keyboard acknowledged influences from McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock through to Brian Auger, Les McCann and Ramsey Lewis
The focus is on presenting a variety of moods centred around the empathic sounds of piano, flute and flugelhorn, with a high degree of musicianship, using young players graduated from the Royal Academy and other London colleges.
The material, however (all written by Taylor alone, or with guest vocalist Corina Greyson), is archetypal JT: mood music with loose funky shuffles and R&B toe-tappers.
Try the breezy "Rochester Raining" with its flute and subtle trumpet lead and the equally deft '"New World".
Add a couple of Greyson's vocals - "Same Old Fool" has a great mid-tempo groove (Roy Ayers tinge) and is the standout - and stir in a dash of trumpet/flugelhorn (Nick Smart) and flute (Gareth Lockrane the perfect choice for his trademark blend of lightness and robustness), and the result is another infectiously enjoyable winner from JTQ, completed by bassist Andrew McKinney, drummer Adam Betts and guitarist John Parricelli
"Stonemason" is a stomping funky Hammond piece, equally pulsating is the Jazz Funk barnstormer "Hotwire".
Heavier, funkier and slower is "Jazz Café Theme".
There are also a couple of straighter Jazz tunes like "Blue Lady" and "Inner Mystic Love".
Although it's as funkily diverse as usual, covering all eras, there is here, in reality, a new sound.
It's brilliant, outstanding: this is JTQ's best album in 10 years or more.
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