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Jon T-Bone Taylor, guitarist
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- Guitarist Jon Taylor was given the name T-Bone by fellow musicians after the great blues singer and guitarist Aaron T-Bone Walker (1910 - 1975), a personal favourite. He led the acclaimed, London based blues band The Bop Brothers (1985 - 2000). Many of Britain’s finest players passed through its ranks. The band recorded two CDs for the Abacabe label.
Taylor attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (1985-86) where tutors on the Jazz and Rock course included the late Lionel Grigson, Phil Lee and Trevor Tomkins. He accompanied visiting American artists/tutors Bobby Shew and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (Blanchard, Harrison, Toussaint, Miller, Plaxico).
The 1990s saw Taylor link up with pianist Tim Richards in various blues and funk orientated line-ups.
Taylor has been a session guest on BBC Radio Two’s Paul Jones Show five times, with Bop Brothers, Charlie Sayles, Deitra Farr, Mojo Buford and Daniel Smith. He has backed various American bluesmen, including Champion Jack Dupree, Lefty Dizz, Clarence ’Tex’ Walker and Eugene ’Hideaway’ Bridges, top British jazz artists such as Harry Beckett, Don Weller, Dick Morrissey and Art Themen, and performed with many of the leading lights of the British blues scene.
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Welcome to LBW, like your stuff , very controlled in a cool
way. In a strange way brings back my early 60's years when I would hitch
up to London from Bristol on a weekend to catch an act like Georgie Fame & The Blueflames or The Peddlars, Cyril Davis or Alexis Corner .
Enjoy the site
Ken Pustelnik
Thanks for the request. How are things in the UK?
Best wishes MD