Reviews
of the Society for Chromatic Art:
"Composers
James Romig and Edward Taylor responded proactively to the challenges
facing emerging composers by founding Society for Chromatic Art, a new
music ensemble that is now entering its eighth season of presenting
concerts featuring young, but highly accomplished, performers."
- Splendidmagazine.com
Reviews of Contemporary
Classical Works:
"Taylor's Second
Piano Sonata is a formidable composition, rich and multifaceted in language
and ambitious in scope." - Christian Carey, Splendidmagazine.com
"Pianist Ashlee
Mack divebombed into the opening of TaylorÕs dense and complex Second
Piano Sonata, a work that merits repeated listening, especially when
this pianist finds novel ways of wringing out color from the dense chords
and intriguing harmony. I found the glassy, high-register music, especially
in the scherzo-like section some 10 minutes into the piece, particularly
effective, as was the enigmatic three-note ostinato that informs some
of the work's closing pages." - Sean Hickey, New Music Connoisseur
"Taylor's The
Shores of Elsinore was a piano solo that also revelled in complex
verticals, inhabiting a gradually unfolding, mysterious and decidedly
Schoenbergian realm." - Christian Carey, Splendidmagazine.com
"The concert
concluded with Taylor's Voices in the Night, a duo comprised
of several movements. While most of these were brief, Webernian vignettes,
the sum total was filled with striking gestures, ear-catching harmonies,
and a number of memorable moments -- a microcosm of the SCA [Society
for Chromatic Art] concert experience." - Christian Carey, Splendidmagazine.com
"The June in
Buffalo Festival continues to bring some of the finest performers and
composers of late 20th-century classical music into the area concert
halls while exposing new works by young writers to an enthusiastic coterie
of likeminded sonic adventurers and voyeurs. Friday night's concert
by the New York New Music Ensemble was no exception. Edward Taylor's
Sextet was unveiled as the first piece in the concert and showcased
Baker's formidable mallet technique on the [marimba]...it showed promise
for the composer's future" - Garaud MacTaggert, The Buffalo News
Reviews
of Jazz Recordings and Compositions:
The
Enlightened Ones by Groove Apparatus
"This is wonderful
music that pulls no punches - straight ahead, swinging contemporary
jazz that reminds one of the old Blue Note recordings in a good way.
Nice writing and impassioned soloing by the group. If you like uncompromising
jazz, this is for you." - David Liebman
"The sum of
the stellar playing, crisp arrangements and intelligently scripted compositions
add up to one of the most delightful surprises of the year. This is
a major treat." - jazzreview.com (read
the entire review)
"Drummer Edward Taylor's "When All is Said and Done",
introduced by a poignantly stated piano, leads into a introspective
tenor and flugelhorn duet." - jazzreview.com
Brazilian
Sunflower by The Jim Josselyn Group
"this outing
is pure contemporary straight-ahead enjoyment...a satisfying jazz outing
from a promising new guitarist and combo." - allaboutjazz.com
"this group's
music permeates the energetic auras of the listener and leaves them
energized from a large dose of their musical lumens. This is, without
question, a group effort and all the music is a selfless blend of the
cumulative talents of some very competent players." - Jazz
Improv, vol. 3, no. 3, 2001
