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About Me

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New album "speech" out now.

This is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry by Paul Taylor in a kind of poetry slalom. Music frames poems; poems shape music.

After a Lancastrian brass-band boyhood and three brilliant years at Hull University, Taylor shifted gear and plunged into jazz and London. Then, in a doomed bid for stardom, he joined the legendary soul/rock band, The Bureau .

Returning swiftly to jazz, he began a long-standing association with composer Roland Perrin , in his bands, Evidence and The Blue Planet Orchestra.

Taylor also moved in on the London Latin music scene, in the carefree days before salsa dance classes, where he has worked with Columbian maestro Roberto Pla's Latin Ensemble since it began, and with La Clave . He also records and gigs with Snowboy & The Latin Section and Manteca .

In amongst all this he worked with South African pianist Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath , Loose Tubes, 3 Mustaphas 3 , and The Pogues , joining them at one of Time Out's all-time top 100 London gigs, at the Town & Country Club, when Joe Strummer was on board. Another great musical ally is Pete Williams , a comrade-in-arms on a Dexys Midnight Runners tour.

The trombone poetry project grew out of work with the pioneering trombone trio, The Blowpipes , and part of the aim is to bring the power, range and charm of this poorly-understood instrument to new audiences, many of whom have been reared on a meagre diet of guitars and the occasional saxophone.

As for the poetry, decades of reading on trains, planes, tour buses and park benches have led Taylor to make his own marks on paper, to shape some kind of sense out of it all.

Aside from poems born out of a musician's experiences, and performed alongside freely improvised musical illustrations, commentaries and explorations, there is a growing range of other poetry, concerning design, science, and mathematics. Some of this work is inspired by the inventions and writings of the French group, Oulipo, some by the inventions and writings of the American designer, Buckminster Fuller .

Trombone poetry has been performed in jazz clubs, poetry festivals, acoustic clubs, free-improv events, theatres, and on Resonance FM and BBC Radio 3's The Verb.

For more blather, and the odd poem, please visit the trombone poetry website.

Paul Taylor plays a Rath trombone.

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Member Since: 5/14/2006
Band Website: trombonepoetry.com
Band Members: Paul Taylor
Influences: Steve Lacy, Jack Teagarden, Conlon Nancarrow, Albert Mangelsdorff, Lol Coxhill, François Rabelais, Buckminster Fuller, B.S. Johnson, Raymond Queneau, Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Max Wall, Flann O'Brien, Anthony Burgess, George Chisholm, Kenneth White, Charles Bukowski, Boris Vian, W.C. Fields.
Sounds Like:
Dead Man Blues (Jelly Roll Morton)

In The Thick Of It

Croydon Chorale: live improv at Freedom of Expression

Touché

Record Label: Blowpipes
Type of Label: None

My Blog

chronicle: September 2008

If it's Croydon, it must be Freedom Of Expression at The Green Dragon: a few songs, a few pints, a few chips. Stuart O'Connor sang; Laveer thrummed; trombone poetry read the odd foundling.Long ago in ...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:45:00 PST

chronicle: August 2008

The Perseverance is a good name for Freedom Of Expression's third base up in Marylebone. Through thick and thin, Tim Eveleigh is presenting a great variety of acts on a creaky stage in a nice old pub,...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:57:00 PST

chronicle: July 2008

The month's adventures began in the West End, for a change, in the cellar of Café Koha, where Twisted Lounge presented Cunding Fut. The gig started with a small contingent of the group, Cast Of Twelve...
Posted by trombone poetry on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:56:00 PST

chronicle: June 2008

Eye-catching and ear-catching, The Tall Poppies twanged and swayed through a set at the glorious George pub in Commercial Road, followed by trombone poetry, positioned at the other end of the saloon n...
Posted by trombone poetry on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:50:00 PST

chronicle: May 2008

The Orchestra Pit celebrated its fifth anniversary with a Soho knees-up, at The Arts Theatre Club in Frith Street. The varied but punk-tinged line-up kicked off with the boisterous Bottle Brunettes ,...
Posted by trombone poetry on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:07:00 PST

chronicle: April 2008

A brief trombone poetry set sneaked its way into the middle of a Mick Collins Big Band gig at the H G Wells Centre, a.k.a. Bromley Labour Club, with no mention of science fiction, the PM, or any overl...
Posted by trombone poetry on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:04:00 PST

chronicle: March 2008

With its perfect view of the dilapidated Battersea Power Station, The Duchess, a pub in Battersea Park Road, was a fine setting for a poetry/music event called Causing A Scene. A few Brel songs were s...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:38:00 PST

chronicle: February 2008

There was a very brief burst of trombone poetry during the Jazz Night hosted by singer Julia Farino, before she suddenly leapt up when SPEECH was plugged, to promote her own album. We resumed our jazz...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:06:00 PST

chronicle: January 2008

The Klinker got us off to a grand start on New Year's Day with an evening at Maggie's Bar in Stoke Newington. Squeeze Box Juke Box extruded some chestnuts, and Fowl Drape enthralled on drums and guita...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:34:00 PST

chronicle: December 2007

The curse of Deptford strikes again! The debut appearance at the Deptford Arms was not quite what was planned (or agreed). Simply put, the event had been scrapped without warning, and replaced by a so...
Posted by trombone poetry on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:29:00 PST