Art Taylor

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · 1960

Bass on Top

Paul Chambers · 1957

Art TaylorArt Taylorアート・テイラー was the house drummer on countless Blue Note sessions in the 1950s–60s. He anchored Coltrane's studio recording of Giant StepsGiant StepsJohn Coltrane · 1960 (1960). He later moved to Europe, spending decades in Paris where he documented jazz musicians in interviews that became the book Notes and Tones.

— Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews, Arthur Taylor, 1977

Art TaylorArt Taylorアート・テイラー played drums on John ColtraneJohn Coltraneジョン・コルトレーン's sole Blue Note album, Blue Train (September 1957). His rock-solid swing, supporting the Lee MorganLee Morganリー・モーガン and Curtis FullerCurtis Fullerカーティス・フラー front line, embodied the hard bop drumming standard.

— John Coltrane: His Life and Music, Lewis Porter, 1998

Drummer Art Taylor self-published Notes and Tones in Europe in 1977, a collection of 29 musician-to-musician interviews including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Nina Simone and Max Roach, posing frank questions about the role of Black artists in a white society.

— Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews, Da Capo Press, 1993