Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum (Remastered 2025) (1966/2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Rarely a month goes by without more gems from the ‘golden age’ of British jazz are dusted off and reissued in lovingly reproduced and expertly remastered packages – and fans of the revered but tragic figure that was pianist and composer Mike Taylor will welcome the news that his two studio albums, Pendulum and Trio, are to be reissued on 25 July.

Pendulum (first released in 1966) has been remastered at Gearbox Records' Studios, London, with the high resolution digital source files, taken from the original master tapes, transferred to a Studer C37 reel-to-reel tape machine and mastered using an all-valve analogue mastering chain, including an ex-Decca Studio 3-band EQ and Telefunken U73b compressors. Lacquers were cut using a Scully disc mastering lathe with Westrex cutter head and cutting amps. The Mike Taylor Trio album (from 1967) has also been remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, directly from the original tapes, using a Studer C37 ¼-inch stereo tape machine. They were then equalised through an all-valve mastering desk built bespoke for Decca studios in the late 1950s, Vintage Lang Pultec EQ, Prism Maselec EQ and Telefunken U73b valve limiters from 1959. The LP lacquers were cut on a beautifully restored Haeco Scully Lathe from 1967 with Westrex (Western Electric) head and cutting amps; the same lathe that Rudy Van Gelder used.

TRACKLIST

1. Mike Taylor Quartet - But Not For Me (Remastered 2025)
2. Mike Taylor Quartet - Exactly Like You (Remastered 2025)
3. Mike Taylor Quartet - A Night In Tunisia (Remastered 2025)
4. Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum (Remastered 2025)
5. Mike Taylor Quartet - To Segovia (Remastered 2025)
6. Mike Taylor Quartet - Leeway (Remastered 2025)



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