Splendid interview , honest and laced with plenty of humour. Art Taylor is a man I would really enjoy meeting . He made one very valid point that many Jazz fans refuse to accept, the music is dead among present day Black Americans . Some years ago on a live BBC radio program the visiting band leader said how good it was to see so many brothers ( blacks ) in the audience.

@jazzatnoonmke659

Жыл бұрын

It's very sad just from the stand point of pride. If I were black I' d be s very proud.

Great interview. Art Taylor has lead an incredible life. He's an amazing man....

Best interview I've witnessed in my life!

Absolutely brilliant , insightful , inspirational interview - especially around the way the knowledge was dissipated . Many thanks

Thank you for posting this important interview of a true legend! Master musician and author Art Taylor!

what a great interview!! thanks for sharing

Fabulous interview by Warren Smith of the great Arthur Taylor 🥁🥁🥁💙💙💙

This Splendid man's work with others is colossal!! It's an honor to see him speak!!! ❤😊😊

Totally enthralling! Mr AT "being nice today"! As it was running I was thinking of just how many greats he's worked and recorded with, an incredible list, even Ray Charles who he alluded to at the end. A fascinating guy with a very good interviewer. It makes the difference. Thanks so much.

So humble and so honest...refreshing

What a lovely and interesting interview - between two sympathetic guys. The interviewer is fantastic Very valid and thought-provoking points Art makes about integration

Art Taylor has his head screwed on right. Thoroughly enjoyed this interview

Thank you for wonderful interview. Good inter play between you both

@johnfousek8991

Жыл бұрын

Always good to see Mr. Ran Blake commenting on any music related video. Thank you for sharing your take on this fantastic interview, and for all your music over the decades.

I have watched this three times and hear new info each time!!!! Thank you!!!!

@moodypoodle6670

9 ай бұрын

Sir, you are also very special person on jazz history too.. long live master! Greetings from Istanbul.

I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. AT is just a pleasure to listen to - both in content and in style. 1:38 - laughing to keep from crying

Absolutely great interview!

Great interview , the genius of A.T.

Great drummer, great person. When you played on Giant Steps what can we say ? Nothing except wow

Thank you for sharing this important interview with one of the jazz masters and one of the greatest drummers in history of music. And Warren Smith is a wonderful drummer in his own right, never forget seeing him sitting in with Dexter Gordon in Copenhagen and he tore the place apart!

@chuckmalone2000

7 жыл бұрын

Warren Smith is also a master percussionist, vibraphone, etc. I spent several years studying under him. He provided one of the best experiences of my life and a funny, humble, and brilliant educator too. Simply an awe-inspiring musician.

@vova47

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, Charles, and I was familiar with his role as a great percussionist, having seen him w. Gil Evans and M' Boom among other bands. But I have never seen him play a drum set in NY, so he surprised me with his swinging and fresh playing. Surprised Dexter, Niels Henning and Kenny Drew too, judging from the big smiles of approval on their faces.

@chuckmalone2000

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I see what you mean. That was a great story you mentioned. Thanks! Warren, is the drummer's drummer because of his many talents. Not only did he master rhythm but melody also playing vibes, tympani, African instruments and so forth. Warren could read music notation from a thousand yards and play in virtually any genre of music.

Beautiful interview and so much great information.. a behind the scenes look into the legends including AT

AT's comments about bird are some of the best I've heard anywhere! I didn't know he was such a sweet person

Terrific interview!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

28:25 Bird's advice to learn the lyrics to all the songs you play is a priceless tip. Then you know the changes and can always feel the song.

@jesham7627

2 жыл бұрын

Blues rule #1

@ivettepalacin8599

2 жыл бұрын

Yes i was struck by how Art Taylor played so honestly, vulnerable-like, as he too was singing the song in his playing along with saxophonist Johnny Griffin. I've never seen such emotion and total sync with lead player. Incredible honesty and razor focus hearing and playing.

Lot of history brought to the table. I like the part when interviewer, Warren Smith had asked Art Taylor about Louis Armstrong contributions to the music and his person as a musician. AT had perceived Armstrong as a “shuffling along Negro,” all through AT’s musical development, foolish as he were, not only understanding survival had been paramount in an era of Jim crowd, but necessary to nation in conflict by a divided society. Louis Armstrong’s presence of jesting, wagging, and amusing an unfriendly audience was the humbug necessary to intersected interracial barriers through his humorous disposition. AT realized being young, skilled and foolish was no excuse for ignorance. Though the moral lesson of the interview had been clear to AT, Louis Armstrong had lived through an era of Jim Crowd, had realized it was paramount for his survival, no less than for all people across racial barriers. In short, Louis Armstrong was no Tommy as the AT for many years had believed and perceived.

@jazzatnoonmke659

Жыл бұрын

Smart people always come around. 😊

Wonderful, Art is a key to the music and its beginnings in the modern age thanks for the post..

Iove both of these guys

Thrilling and fulfilling. Let’s have more griot documentation.

@johnfousek8991

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! I’m wondering if there’s any such documentation archived at Weslyan, especially if you’re still teaching there. In particular of the griot Edward Blackwell.

"It`s worse. Everything is in demise. The people`s morals are in demise." Almost 30 years later and what he says is still true. Just look, or listen if you can stand to, at the music of America today.

Became familiar with Art's playing through Tina Brooks' True Blue...tasty with a great energy to play over.

@zu0832

3 жыл бұрын

His work w Hampton Hawes too

Great interview by Warren Smith with Art Taylor. Very enlightening specially the last 49minutes, fascinating topics. Those Social issues,man. ♥ Yeah.!!! Thanks.

@jsstroup81

4 жыл бұрын

Sixteenth note triplet with theft hand is str8 fire.

Great discussion! Dig it!

Amazing !!!!!

Great interview!

Amazing info!

Amazing! Thanks a lot for this mind joint!

Amazing

Art Taylor lived in my hometown, Liège ! So strange ahah

all interviews are at the The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

@jeanhodgson8623

6 жыл бұрын

What a racist title. And the blacks gripe about us whites. I don't care what anyone's race is, but chip-on-the-shoulder blacks (not Art) piss me off.

@georgemcfetridge8310

Жыл бұрын

@@jeanhodgson8623 Maybe 'research in groove-based improvised music' and leave silly 'race' out of it.

I wish I could see the interview with Leon Thomas from the same project.

nice man!

The Man who played drums on Trane's 'Giant Steps'. Enough said.

@alankirkby465

2 жыл бұрын

tiluriso Your so correct in your comments. Peace to all.

@tiluriso

2 жыл бұрын

@@alankirkby465 Peace!

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Towards the start of the interview he says he was a talented athlete growing up in Jamaica, and alludes to racism in sports. So why didn’t the interviewer ask which sport? It probably would only have taken 30 seconds and would have been interesting to know. I’m always amazed at how so many interviewers miss asking very obvious, good follow up questions. Maybe it’s because I’m a reporter for a newspaper, but it drives me nuts. The single most interesting part of the entire long interview is an hour in, when Mr. Taylor expresses his disapproval of what he calls “desegregation.” He doesn’t explain exactly what he means, but he goes on to say he understands why some white people are uptight with the concept of a conscious and formal effort to desegregate and integrate whites and blacks among American society. Too bad the interviewer didn’t press him for more details and at least mention forced busing policies in the 1970s. And his comments regarding Satchmo are quite insightful.

@gregorytate8514

3 жыл бұрын

His parents were from Jamaica but Art was born in Harlem and grew up there. The major American. sports --baseball, basketball, football--weren't integrated yet, still denied Black athletes opportunities to play.. But by body type AT looks like would've been a great runner

Good stuff

Has anyone seen or heard of the video interviews that he talks about at the end?

@georgemcfetridge8310

Жыл бұрын

I'm hoping there's an Art Taylor website that might have them..

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Are there any Andy Kirk jr. recordings out there ? Couldn’t find anything.

@gregorytate8514

5 жыл бұрын

Far as I know he never got a chance to record and dropped out of music around the age of 20 due to what may have been mental health issues-. H e lived to 1967 but never came back to the horn.

@southpass

4 жыл бұрын

They might be listed under "Clouds of Joy"

@gregorytate8514

4 жыл бұрын

@@southpass That was Mr Andy Kirk Sr's famous band that released scores of songs before he retired from music in 1946. . His son never recorded.

Extremely based part 2.

Great , great interview. It is hard to believe that race plays still a role, better it is hard to accept. White supremacy? Is there something more stupid?

The quickest hour 50 I've ever spent.

30:10 Don't Piss Off Philly Joe

good old A T

He did not grow up in Jamaica. The sport: baseball.

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If this interview took place in 1994 then Oscar Peterson was still alive. Oscar died in 2007

Art's hihat WAS too loud on "Miles Ahead". The first track was made up of two takes at slightly different tempos. The takes were chopped up and the bits were spliced together. The insistent hihat really rubs it in. They should have made a take of the entire piece.

see, integration has nothing to do with giving up your culture ... black,white, Spanish,etc...that's why diversify is a scam...in reality it's about giving up your culture to except another..why??

@jazzatnoonmke659

Жыл бұрын

I'm white I willing give in to the black ownership of this music. So I hope that doesn't mean I'm abandoning my culture...?

Good drummer but certainly not a good spokesman. too may contradictions

@jazzatnoonmke659

Жыл бұрын

I think a close analysis it's mostly in line. A bit of compensation for the 1994 delivery.

@georgemcfetridge8310

Жыл бұрын

A lot of what he says is spot on, contradictions or not. Credit to him for finding enough grace and ease to not blow his stack at some of the concerns brought out in this very good interview.

Great, great, great interview!