Taylor Haskins
- Writer
- Cinematographer
- Composer
Taylor Haskins is being hailed as one of the most original new voices on the trumpet today. Downbeat magazine named him one of it's 'trumpets of the future', stating that Taylor displays "a probing, adroit lyricism and a gift for complex, imaginative composition." Icon magazine remarked that "his playing catches you off-guard in a most wonderful way", and the East Bay Express declared that "with musicians like Taylor Haskins, critics and marketing people need to formulate new genre terminology".
He has performed, recorded and toured the world playing a wide variety of music over his 24-year career, including early stints with the Artie Shaw Orchestra and Maynard Ferguson's 'Big Bop Nouveau' and more recently the Richard Bona Group. Taylor performs and records with Guillermo Klein's 'Los Guachos', the Dave Holland Big Band (with whom he won a Grammy award in 2005, with the album 'Overtime'), the Alan Ferber Big Band (nominated for a Grammy award in 2014 with the album 'March Sublime'), and Nels Cline's 'Lovers' project.
Taylor has released five albums of original compositions: "Wake Up Call" (Fresh Sound - 2003), "Metaview" (Fresh Sound - 2008), "American Dream"/Sunnyside Records (2010), "Recombination"/Nineteen-Eight Records (2011), and most recently "Fuzzy Logic"/Sunnyside Records (2014), which has received widespread critical acclaim since it's recent release.
Taylor has also been composing music for media for over 15 years, and in the process he has contributed music to major films and scored dozens of national commercials. Taylor worked full-time for 5 years as a composer for the cutting-edge music production house tomandandy(TM), composing music for major commercial campaigns and films, as well as helping to develop and test proprietary music software that implemented artificial intelligence-based algorithms. The software eventually received a U.S. Patent.
Taylor holds a Masters degree (MM, Manhattan School of Music, 1996) in music composition and a Bachelors degree (BA, UNH, 1993) in music performance.
Originally hailing from the woods of Southern New Hampshire and having thrived as a musician in New York city for over 20 years, Taylor now resides in the Champlain Valley region of New York's Adirondack mountains.
He has performed, recorded and toured the world playing a wide variety of music over his 24-year career, including early stints with the Artie Shaw Orchestra and Maynard Ferguson's 'Big Bop Nouveau' and more recently the Richard Bona Group. Taylor performs and records with Guillermo Klein's 'Los Guachos', the Dave Holland Big Band (with whom he won a Grammy award in 2005, with the album 'Overtime'), the Alan Ferber Big Band (nominated for a Grammy award in 2014 with the album 'March Sublime'), and Nels Cline's 'Lovers' project.
Taylor has released five albums of original compositions: "Wake Up Call" (Fresh Sound - 2003), "Metaview" (Fresh Sound - 2008), "American Dream"/Sunnyside Records (2010), "Recombination"/Nineteen-Eight Records (2011), and most recently "Fuzzy Logic"/Sunnyside Records (2014), which has received widespread critical acclaim since it's recent release.
Taylor has also been composing music for media for over 15 years, and in the process he has contributed music to major films and scored dozens of national commercials. Taylor worked full-time for 5 years as a composer for the cutting-edge music production house tomandandy(TM), composing music for major commercial campaigns and films, as well as helping to develop and test proprietary music software that implemented artificial intelligence-based algorithms. The software eventually received a U.S. Patent.
Taylor holds a Masters degree (MM, Manhattan School of Music, 1996) in music composition and a Bachelors degree (BA, UNH, 1993) in music performance.
Originally hailing from the woods of Southern New Hampshire and having thrived as a musician in New York city for over 20 years, Taylor now resides in the Champlain Valley region of New York's Adirondack mountains.
