Saxaphonist; Paul Taylor was a member of the band . PT grew up in Denver, where he took up the
saxophone at the age of seven.
He played in school bands, and in high school joined a Top 40 band
called
Mixed Company. Jazz keyboardist
Keiko Matsui and her husband, producer
Kazu Matsui,
discovered him playing at the
Catalina Island Jazz Festival and hired
him to play in their band. He spent two years with them, and then
Kazu Matsui produced his 1995 debut album,
On the Horn, which reached the jazz charts and spawned a radio hit in "Til We Meet Again."
Pleasure Seeker, his second album, followed in 1997 and was equally successful.
Taylor released his third album,
Undercover, on Peak/N-Coded Music in February 2000. Also in 2000, he toured as a special guest artist with
the Rippingtons. Subsequent albums
Hypnotic (2001),
Steppin' Out (2003),
Nightlife (2005), and
Ladies' Choice (2007), all issued by Peak Records, figured high in the contemporary jazz charts, with
Ladies' Choice going all the way to number one. Peak released
Taylor's eighth album,
Burnin', in 2009. Two years later,
Taylor returned with the album
Prime Time.
Artist Biography
by William Ruhlmann
Concord Music Group