Art Taylor Taylor’s Wailers on Hybrid Mono SACD
Analogue Productions’ Prestige Mono Series
Mastered by Kevin Gray from the Original Mono Master Tapes
In 1956, drummer Art Taylor formed a group called Taylor’s Wailers that included Donald Byrd (trumpet) and Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone). This 1957 Prestige release,finds the group joined by Jackie McLean (alto sax) on five of thealbum’s six songs including the two Thelonious Monk compositions “Well, You Needn’t” and “Off Minor”while Taylor leads a line-up of John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Red Garland(piano) and Paul Chambers (bass) in a separate session on JimmyHeath’s “C.T.A.”
