''Taylor's Wailers'' is the debut album by drummer

Art Taylor Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer, who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".Watrous, Peter (February 7, 1995)"Art Taylor, 65, Jazz Drummer Who Inspired Young Musicians" ''The Ne ...

, released in 1957 on Prestige. It features tracks recorded mainly on February 25, 1957 plus a track from a different session featuring

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...

on saxophone.

Reception

In a review for

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singled out the renditions of Bryant's "Cubano Chant" and Monk's "Off Minor" and "Well, You Needn't" for praise, and wrote: "Bryant is the most mature of the soloists, but the three horn players were already starting to develop their own highly individual sounds." The authors of ''

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'' called the album a "well-cooked hard-bop session," and stated that Taylor's playing is "authoritative, although some of his mannerisms leave him a degree short of the single-minded drive of

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

." A writer for ''

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'' noted the music's "open, throbbing swing," and commented: "Rouse and... Byrd are in especially fine form; Taylor, his forceful, tasteful self."

Track listing

#"Batland" ( Lee Sears)9:52 #"C.T.A." (

Jimmy Heath James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath. Biography Heath w ...

)4:43 #"Exhibit A" (Sears)6:16 #"Cubano Chant" (Bryant)6:36 #"Off Minor" (Monk)5:38 #" Well You Needn't" (Monk)7:55

Personnel

Tracks 1, 3–6 *

drums *

Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter, composer and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few h ...

trumpet *

Jackie McLean John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator. He is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death. Bio ...

alto sax * Charlie Rousetenor sax * Ray Bryantpiano * Wendell Marshallbass Track 2 *Art Taylordrums *

tenor sax *

Red Garland William McKinley "Red" Garland Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of playing in jazz ...

piano *

Paul Chambers Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop er ...

bass

References

{{Authority control 1957 debut albums Art Taylor albums Albums produced by Bob Weinstock Prestige Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums recorded in a home studio