Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor is an accomplished pianist specialising in improvisation. His music is evocative, alluring and unique; combining unusual harmonies and sonorities with an original and fluid technique.

In recent years, he has emerged as one of the most consistently interesting and innovative solo pianists, eschewing the conventional cliches associated with jazz improvisation in favour of an unorthodox, harmonically complex and often compellingly beautiful musical language that is often inspired by the classical tradition; yet his playing also encapsulates the restless capacity for invention that is a cornerstone of jazz.

‘A rare phenomenon’, International Piano Magazine

‘A Chopin of the contemporary art music era’, Neil March, Exile FM

‘A solo improviser of outstanding scope and originality ... his solo excursions on piano proceed with an unpredictable but constantly gripping logic that often feels as close to the richly lyrical and harmonic approach of Romantic period classical composers as it does to…