Mark Taylor (French horn player)

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Mark Taylor (* 1961 in Chattanooga (Tennessee) ) is an American jazz musician ( French horn , piano ), composer and music producer of the Modern Creative .

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Mark Taylor began playing the piano at the age of six, sang in the boys' choir, switched to the clarinet at the age of nine and finally to the French horn as a teenager. He studied music at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; there he came into contact with jazz and the music of Julius Watkins . He continued his studies with Jerry Coker and graduated in 1986.

He then took classes with Dave Holland and George Russell at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and then moved to New York, where he has since worked mainly as a studio and session musician, a. a. with Max Roach , Henry Threadgill ( Very Very Circus , Live at Koncepts , 1991), Muhal Richard Abrams ( Blu Blu Blu , 1990), with Orange Then Blue (1988), the Jazz Composers Alliance Orcherestra (1992) and Alan Silvas Sound of Vision Orchestra (1999), but also with pop artists such as BeBe Winans and Michael Bolton . He released two albums under his own name, Quiet Land on Mapleshade Records and Circle Squared on his own Taymons label. Currently (2012) he works as a pianist with his band Secret Identity , which includes Darius Jones , Ken Filiano and Michael Thompson .

Mark Taylor has worked as a composer for various theater and dance productions as well as for film scores such as the documentaries A String of Pearls and 9/11: The Forgotten Underdogs . For the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble he wrote a series of transcriptions of the music of the ragtime bandleader James Reese Europe (369th "Harlem Hellfighters")

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SURNAME Taylor, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Chattanooga, Tennessee