Paul Taylor: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
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• Kazu Matsui

Genres:

Jazz Music, Fusion Jazz Music, Contemporary Jazz Music, Cool Jazz Music

Decades Active:

1990's|2000's

Paul Taylor grew up in Denver, where he took up the saxophone at the age of seven. He played in school bands, and in high school joined a Top 40 band called Mixed Company. Jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui and her husband, producer Kazu Matsui, discovered him playing at ~the Catalina Island Jazz Festival and hired him to play in their band. He spent two years with them, and then Kazu Matsui produced his 1995 debut album, On the Horn, which reached the jazz charts and spawned a radio hit in "Til We Meet Again." Pleasure Seeker, his second album, followed in 1997 and was equally successful. Taylor released his third album Undercover on Peak/N-Coded Music in February 2000.

- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide