Double Exposure, by John Taylor & Stan Sulzmann

Double Exposure

by John Taylor & Stan Sulzmann

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Album recorded in 1990 by John Taylor and Stan Sulzmann and released in 2016 on the InVersion label. All the proceeds from the sale of these albums will go to John Taylor’s family and Stan Sulzmann
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1.	Pure & Simple 06:02	buy track
2.	Slow Loris 04:42	buy track
3.	Stango 04:35	buy track
4.	Free Ballad 02:29	buy track
5.	Extracts 01:54	buy track
6.	CD Smith 03:32	buy track
7.	Country/Raindrops 03:08	buy track
8.	Cartoon/Room For Improvement 03:54	buy track
9.	Straight Man 04:25	buy track
10.	'Q' 05:01	buy track
11.	Ocean Deep 05:40	buy track
12.	Spider 03:11	buy track
13.	Haari 05:17	buy track

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Having recorded Everybody’s Song But My Own in 1987, John and I found ourselves discussing another recording and the musical direction we might take. Fortuitously we were approached by Sentinel and invited to spend a few days in Cornwall recording and experimenting with new material and sounds.

I owned a Roland D50 synthesizer which John took away with the manual, and studiously woodshedded, re-programmed and quickly got to grips with its capabilities. On this recording we experimented using the synthesizer in improvised duets, as well as performing our compositions with John on piano. Some of the new pieces were conceived on site.

Apart from piano John played various keyboards always in his own unique manner. A renowned Fender Rhodes player he used a pair of Fender twin reverb amps, giving an exciting stereo personal sound on live performances. He used the EMS Synthi-sequencer with Azimuth as well as the Crumar organ. Whatever instrument he played on, it always sounded like J.T. with his wonderful sense of tonal colour.

The stylistic mix in the music on this recording was born from our shared eclectic taste in music. We both enjoyed Messiaen, Bartok, Frank Bridge and more as well as a great wealth of jazz legends, many of whom John worked with in his years as accompanist at Ronnie Scotts.

Visiting John in Kent we would enjoy a drink at the village hostelry return to his cottage and have fun playing through some flute and piano pieces by Hindemith, Dutilleux and Prokofiev, as well as improvising our way through John’s scrapbook of musical ideas.

You can hear the ‘jazz’ history in Pure & Simple, Ocean Deep and Q, as well as European contemporary music influences in the free duets with synthesizer and the flute and piano piece CD Smith.

It was a great privilege to have spent so many years playing with John Taylor in so many varied combinations. He was a huge influence on me, a wonderful improviser and great accompanist.

I would like to dedicate this recording to his memory and hope you will join us in enjoying some of the musical fun and surprises in a sound world not so often associated with John Taylor in his later
Years.

Stan Sulzmann, May 2016

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released September 23, 2023

Stan Sulzmann – tenor, soprano sax & flute
John Taylor – piano, keyboards & synthesiser

1. Pure & Simple (Taylor) 6.02
2. Slow Loris (Sulzmann) 4.37
3. Stango (Taylor) 4.34
4. Free Ballad (Taylor/Sulzmann) 2.28
5. Extracts (Taylor/Sulzmann) 1.54
6. CD Smith (Taylor) 3.32
7. Country/Raindrops (Taylor/Sulzmann) 3.07
8. Cartoon/Room For Improvement (Taylor) 3.54
9. Straight Man (Taylor) 4.24
10. 'Q' (Taylor) 5.01
11. Ocean Deep (Sulzmann) 5.38
12. Spider (Sulzmann) 3.09
13. Haari (Sulzmann) 5.15

Recorded at Sentinel Studios, Paul, Cornwall 1990

Produced and engineered by Brian Smith

Assistant engineer Justin Halls

Mastering and editing at Interspear Studios by Brian Miller 2016

Assistant mastering by Ben Lamdin at The Fish Factory, Willesden, London on 29th April 2016

Cover photograph by Tim Edwards Photography, London

It is only now - 26 years after it was recorded in 1990 - that we've had the opportunity to release this album. It is a testament to its quality that it's more than stood the test of time. The interaction between Stan and John, coupled with their precision and musicality is as listenable and exciting today as in the original performances.
Brian Smith, Director, Interspear Music, August 2016

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