Today got 5 stars on Amazon!

Coming back today on the Amazon Best Jazz biographies section at 26°, the book has got its first five stars by a benevolent reader named Alan Giles. You can read his very long review here

He states that "the book is highly readable, and very worth while obtaining. I found it very interesting. Its author, Luca Ferrari has made a very credible attempt to make bricks without straw...".

An then: "I just wish a real jazz historian like Simon Spillett had written this work – when you read his biography of Tubby Hayes The Long Shadow of The Little Giant, you know the forensic work that went into it to make it impossible for anyone else ever to improve on it, for it's clarity and scrupulous fairness and honesty. With all due respect to Mr Ferrari, I would have tried to dig deeper, but I genuinely congratulate him on writing this book at all. My only quibble is the implication that he was mentally ill (“madness” is a word that crops up more than once). Unless depression and discontent has been reclassified thus, I don't believe he was".

Anyway, I'm sorry, I'm not Simon Spillet and this is just a book that tries to recover the life and the career of a great obscure musician. Usually the most famous jazz historians and writers/journalists of music are involved in other kind of biographies - John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Monk, Jarrett...
I'm an an Italian writer and I'm living in Italy, so usually I have some problems to make researches and get stuff for a book about an English musician... 

Then, I genuinely wish someone can improve this my work, I don't believe at all in that classic commonplace about "the definitive biography" about anyone...

This is my story of Mike Taylor. I hope in the future there will be many other stories about him written by others!


Updates:
on 30th December: the book is graded #71

on 31th December: #2 (!) then #11 

on January 1st: #55, then #65 

"Out of Nowhere" at 55° in Best Sellers jazz biography!

After been disappeared for some weeks, unexpectedly today "Out of Nowhere" is at 55° in Amazon.co.uk best sellers jazz musician biographies!

Even if I don't understand what it means, I'm very glad of it...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/512316/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last#3

                                        Mike's personal copy of "Trio" (courtesy of KORO ITO)!

Of course, the great relevance of this is that the name of  Mike Taylor is now along with jazz monsters as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Jaco Pastorius, Louis Armstrong...

Updates:
on December 4th: 11°
on December 5th: 15° then 20°
on December 6th: 63° 
on December 12th: 28°

Canadian "Jazz World" reviews "Out of Nowhere".

Ben Waxman of Canadian jazz magazine "Jazz World" reviews my book on Mike Taylor inside a bigger review also dedicated to one other book - "Beyond Jazz: plink, plonk & scratch; the golden age of free music in London 1966-1972" by Trevor Barre (Compass Press).

The complete text is available at http://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=128886

 
About "Out of Nowhere" he writes:
"Out Of Nowhere, the Uniquely Elusive Jazz of Mike Taylor is an exhaustive near hagiography tracing the brief career of a British pianist whose career began and ended in the 1960s and whose particular music and short life characterized all that was good and bad about the improvised and overall music scene during that representative decade".

"(...) Pianist Mike Taylor’s will-o-wisp career intersected slightly with the Free players lionized in Barre’s book but his career was more mainstream and ultimately tragic. Taylor (1938-1969), was a jobbing pianist and composer who, in the early 1960s, was working on a synthesis of Bill Evans’ and Horace Silver’s keyboard-centric sound with European notated music and aiming towards creating a unique sound. While he did play at the SME and Incus Records-affiliated hangout The Little Theatre club, it was just one of the many pubs, clubs and concerts at which he found work until, drug dependency, mental illness and finally suicide by drowning in the Themes river, curtailed a promising career. Besides Taylor’s sidemen were less singular in their pursuits than the committed British improvisers. Like teenage girls in a clothing store, they tried many genres of music on for size – dance band, Blues, R&B, and studio work as well as Jazz. Some, including drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce who formed Cream; drummer John Hiseman who led Colosseum; and saxophonist/organist Graham Bond; went on to a form of Rock stardom.

Luca Ferrara’s exhaustive, if somewhat plodding, volume tries to piece together the shards of Taylor’s life. The initially fastidiously dressed pianist, who also had a day job as a salesman, was notoriously uncommunicative about his art even to fellow musicians who played his knotty compositions and arrangements. Following the breakup of his marriage, coupled who a general lack of recognition for Jazz in what become Beat Music obsessed London, Taylor, whose only previous deviation from then straight life was consumption of marijuana was transformed Jekyll-and-Hyde-like into a hippie-LSD freak. More-than-daily Acid trips turned his standoffishness into non-communication, his appearance to that of a tramp with unkempt hair and beard and barefoot, and his instrument of choice a broken clay drum. Ferrara has combed through as many of the official documents, contemporary media and interviews with Taylor’s friends and fellow musicians, most notably Hiseman, bassist Ron Rubin and as many others as he could find, to build this published monument.

Unfortunately like that Gertrude Stein said about Oakland, California, “there is no there there” could also apply to Taylor’s non-musical life. Someone whose demand for complete control led to him exactingly capture his own scores on self-drawn score paper – and whose mental problems led him to toss his scores into the garbage can near the end of his life – the pianist would brook no compromises. By happenstance some scores were rescued by a passing friend. Taylor’s two LP releases, now collector’s items that change hands for hundreds of pounds, were recorded only through the enthusiasm of engineer/producer/studio owner Denis Preston, and once the pianist became immersed in the drug-hippie-psychosis-homeless culture it was only Rubin who secured him a few gigs where he frequently didn’t show up, wouldn’t play or merely mumbled at the few audience members.

Ironically, as the author points out, even though the Taylor band opened for Ornette Coleman at one well-remembered London concert, what renown the pianist has now is related to happenstance. Three of his co-compositions were included in rock band Cream’s best-selling Wheels of Fire two-LP set, making his name a footnote for obsessive Brit-Rock collectors. Drummer Baker, who is listed as co-composer, had played with Taylor. More crucially, the all-star British New Jazz Orchestra, directed by Neil Ardly, recorded three of Taylor’s compositions on LP in 1968 and 1970 which fit seamlessly among the other Jazz classics on the disc. Of course the orchestration was by Ardly from Taylor’s original lines; with a similar job done on the dozen Taylor tunes that made up 2007’s Mike Taylor Remembered session, the scores of some were those rescued from incineration.

Out of Nowhere encompasses the virtues of oral history: dogged research, exhaustive detailing and reproduction of key items in Taylor’s life and music. But it also includes most of the genre’s many faults: repetition of too much minutia; reliance on suppositions from various sources without strong enough editorial judgment; inflation of minor or everyday episodes to life-altering experiences; and the usual sloppy foot-noting, imprecise language and fear of excising extraneous details that plagues labors of love such as this one. For what it is, the story clips along at a racehorse-like gallop and provides details otherwise ignored in music books dedicate to famous players. But in the end nostalgia for, obsession with, or knowledge of that particular epoch in British music would aid in appreciating the book".

Apart my name wrongly written (many years ago I wrote a book with the pseudonym of Chino Ferrara...), I really appreciate the frankness  and the depth of this review. And even if negative about some aspects of the writing, I'm really proud the journalist states that my book "encompasses the virtues of oral history": this was one of the aims of this project.

The other one was to  try "to piece together the shards of Taylor’s life"...

"Jazz Wise" magazine writes about the book...

Brian Priestley writes a review on "Jazz Wise" magazine of October issue with some positive appreciations ("well researched and well illustrated...") and some disapprovals.

I'm not agreed just with one thing, about my presumed invention of the expression "untied notes" because the journalist believes I accidentally refer to the form of "staccato". But "staccati" are sequences of notes not linked together, "a note of shortened duration, separated from the note that may follow by silence" (Wikipedia).

Taylor's piano notes in "Trio" album are 'untied' notes (i.e. listen to the incipit of "All you things you are"...) not 'staccati', because they have different times and beats...

"Out of Nowhere" #1 Best seller book in Jazz musician biographies!

A great unexpected surprise was to discover on September 26th the book is #1 Best seller in Jazz musician biographies at Amazon UK!

If one considers the book has got just few reviews and scarce passages on the Web... it's a real miracle!

Go  here at the Amazon page and share my buzzzzz! 

Update 1 (27/09/2015): the book is at 34° but is a great score for myself anyway!
Update 2 (29/09/2015): the book is at 69°.
Update 3 (30/09/2015): the book is at 88°. 
Update 4 (01/10/2015): 50°.
Update 5: (03/10/2015): 76°

Another review on Jazziz...

This is another review about the book written by Matt Micucci and posted on Jazziz Magazine Web site on July 2oth, 2015 (http://www.jazziz.com/new-book-on-life-of-british-jazz-composer-and-co-songwriter-for-cream-mike-taylor/):

New Book On Life Of British Jazz Composer and Co-Songwriter For Cream, Mike Taylor

by Matt Micucci

 

In January 1969, a man known as Mike Taylor drowned in the River Thames near Leigh-on-Sea, UK. Despite having had a brief but intense career as a jazz composer, pianist and recording artist in the British scene of the mid to late sixties, his death was widely unremarked. Now, a new biography entitled Out of Nowhere, written by underground author Luca Ferrari and published by UK’s Gonzo Media aims to resurrect his memory.

Ferrari says: “My book was a real challenge because apart two good articles nothing was known about Mike Taylor, just some dates from his past, often fakes, never verified.”

Mike Taylor was born in 1938 in Ealing, West London. Having rehearsed and written extensively throughout the early sixties, he recorded two albums for the Lansdowne series produced by Denis Preston. The first was a standard hard-bop driven record named “Pendulum” (1966), with drummer John Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves and saxophonist Dave Tomlin. The second “Trio” (1967), with Hiseman and bassists Jack Bruce and Ron Rubin, geared more towards a temperate free jazz style.

His pieces were recorded and played by many of his contemporaries. Among them, rock legends Cream. Three of Taylor’s compositions – Pressed Rat and Warthog, Passing the Time and Those Were the Days – are featured in their album Wheels of Fire (1968) with lyrics by drummer Ginger Baker.

A failed marriage and heavy drug use would mark his demise. He would spend the last two years of his life homeless and painfully wandering around London, often near Kew and Richmond Park, until his sudden death in the water of Thames.

It was not before 2007 that his memory was somewhat resurrected, when the independent record label Dusk Fire Records released Mike Taylor Remembered for the first time – a 1973 tribute to the musician by Neil Ardley, Jon Hiseman, Ian Carr, Barbara Thompson and other major modern British jazz players.

And now, his memory lives on with the first biography on his life Out of Nowhere by Luca Ferrari, who has written extensively about rock and folk music in the past. “Listening to [Mike Taylor’s] few records I discovered this wonderful obscure world of sounds, a very rare dimension of intimacy, made of experimentations and great sensibility”, Luca says. “This book is a sort of reparative way to celebrate his musical genius and to recollect his life.”

In January 1969, a man known as Mike Taylor drowned in the River Thames near Leigh-on-Sea, UK. Despite having had a brief but intense career as a jazz composer, pianist and recording artist in the British scene of the mid to late sixties, his death was widely unremarked. Now, a new biography entitled Out of Nowhere, written by underground author Luca Ferrari and published by UK’s Gonzo Media aims to resurrect his memory.
Ferrari says: “My book was a real challenge because apart two good articles nothing was known about Mike Taylor, just some dates from his past, often fakes, never verified.”
Mike Taylor was born in 1938 in Ealing, West London. Having rehearsed and written extensively throughout the early sixties, he recorded two albums for the Lansdowne series produced by Denis Preston. The first was a standard hard-bop driven record named “Pendulum” (1966), with drummer John Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves and saxophonist Dave Tomlin. The second “Trio” (1967), with Hiseman and bassists Jack Bruce and Ron Rubin, geared more towards a temperate free jazz style.
His pieces were recorded and played by many of his contemporaries. Among them, rock legends Cream. Three of Taylor’s compositions – Pressed Rat and Warthog, Passing the Time and Those Were the Days – are featured in their album Wheels of Fire (1968) with lyrics by drummer Ginger Baker.
A failed marriage and heavy drug use would mark his demise. He would spend the last two years of his life homeless and painfully wandering around London, often near Kew and Richmond Park, until his sudden death in the water of Thames.
It was not before 2007 that his memory was somewhat resurrected, when the independent record label Dusk Fire Records released Mike Taylor Remembered for the first time – a 1973 tribute to the musician by Neil Ardley, Jon Hiseman, Ian Carr, Barbara Thompson and other major modern British jazz players.
And now, his memory lives on with the first biography on his life Out of Nowhere by Luca Ferrari, who has written extensively about rock and folk music in the past. “Listening to [Mike Taylor’s] few records I discovered this wonderful obscure world of sounds, a very rare dimension of intimacy, made of experimentations and great sensibility”, Luca says. “This book is a sort of reparative way to celebrate his musical genius and to recollect his life.”
- See more at: http://www.jazziz.com/new-book-on-life-of-british-jazz-composer-and-co-songwriter-for-cream-mike-taylor/#sthash.xtobt3Pj.dpuf

In January 1969, a man known as Mike Taylor drowned in the River Thames near Leigh-on-Sea, UK. Despite having had a brief but intense career as a jazz composer, pianist and recording artist in the British scene of the mid to late sixties, his death was widely unremarked. Now, a new biography entitled Out of Nowhere, written by underground author Luca Ferrari and published by UK’s Gonzo Media aims to resurrect his memory.
Ferrari says: “My book was a real challenge because apart two good articles nothing was known about Mike Taylor, just some dates from his past, often fakes, never verified.”
Mike Taylor was born in 1938 in Ealing, West London. Having rehearsed and written extensively throughout the early sixties, he recorded two albums for the Lansdowne series produced by Denis Preston. The first was a standard hard-bop driven record named “Pendulum” (1966), with drummer John Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves and saxophonist Dave Tomlin. The second “Trio” (1967), with Hiseman and bassists Jack Bruce and Ron Rubin, geared more towards a temperate free jazz style.
His pieces were recorded and played by many of his contemporaries. Among them, rock legends Cream. Three of Taylor’s compositions – Pressed Rat and Warthog, Passing the Time and Those Were the Days – are featured in their album Wheels of Fire (1968) with lyrics by drummer Ginger Baker.
A failed marriage and heavy drug use would mark his demise. He would spend the last two years of his life homeless and painfully wandering around London, often near Kew and Richmond Park, until his sudden death in the water of Thames.
It was not before 2007 that his memory was somewhat resurrected, when the independent record label Dusk Fire Records released Mike Taylor Remembered for the first time – a 1973 tribute to the musician by Neil Ardley, Jon Hiseman, Ian Carr, Barbara Thompson and other major modern British jazz players.
And now, his memory lives on with the first biography on his life Out of Nowhere by Luca Ferrari, who has written extensively about rock and folk music in the past. “Listening to [Mike Taylor’s] few records I discovered this wonderful obscure world of sounds, a very rare dimension of intimacy, made of experimentations and great sensibility”, Luca says. “This book is a sort of reparative way to celebrate his musical genius and to recollect his life.”
- See more at: http://www.jazziz.com/new-book-on-life-of-british-jazz-composer-and-co-songwriter-for-cream-mike-taylor/#sthash.xtobt3Pj.dpuf

NEW BOOK ON LIFE OF BRITISH JAZZ COMPOSER, MIKE TAYLOR

July 20, 2015 by Lean Crowley | JAZZIZ Daily

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NEW BOOK ON LIFE OF BRITISH JAZZ COMPOSER, MIKE TAYLOR

July 20, 2015 by Lean Crowley | JAZZIZ Daily

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An interview about the book on Gonzo Web Radio.

A little promo for the book is this interview I've had with Jonathan Downes for Gonzo Web Radio. You can listen to it through the Gonzo Weekly magazine (issue 144) at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/ going to page 41.

Thanks Jon for it and sorry to everyone for my poor English!

The first review...

Posted on Marlbank Web site (read here) on July 3oth, 2015, this is the first review on the Web:

"Mike Taylor drowned in January 1969. He was just 30 years old. What the pianist achieved during his brief career, notably the albums Pendulum and Trio, continues to resound with new generations discovering his music for the first time as does the mysterious and often sad story of the part he played in the British jazz scene of the 1960s.

This is the first biography of the pianist and unearths a good deal of detail little known to today’s jazz world. The foreword deals with the harsh facts of the death of Taylor and jumps into what the book’s author Luca Ferrari terms the pianist’s “secret pain” quoting friends who begin to reveal what they thought of the mysterious pianist who relate even the “fiasco” of the funeral. A morbid tale then at the outset, at some considerable remove from sentimental fandom, Ferrari even discusses the Taylor gravestone scrutinising the poetic epitaph with its promise that “my life/Is More than my action,” something, however cryptically, history seems to have borne out given Taylor’s posthumous regard.

This book, not huge in length, is packed full of carefully gathered research, and surely will drive the legend that bit more no matter how hard the Taylor records still prove to find in their enduring position of stubborn rarity.

The first chapter sees a track back to the famous Ornette Coleman 1965 Croydon concert that Taylor’s quartet provided the support act for. Despite the sense of occasion bad luck dogged the pianist – a review in one magazine even got his surname completely wrong.

Born in Ealing in 1938, his father an accountant in the family wallpaper and paint firm who died when Taylor was just three years old, his mother Mary passing away three years after her husband, the orphaned Taylor and his siblings were brought up by their grandparents. After national service, by the early-1960s, Taylor now married, was listening to Bill Evans and Art Blakey records with friends, getting stoned a little, living in the suburban respectability of Twickenham, driving an Austin. Beginnning to jam on the London jazz scene in 1960-61 playing in places like the Nucleus coffee bar in Covent Garden improvising on standards and the blues Taylor would form a quintet, Ginger Baker becoming his first drummer. Taylor compositions would much later be performed by Cream on Wheels of Fire.

At this stage in his career Taylor was influenced by Horace Silver and Ferrari draws on the memories of friends and colleagues of Taylor’s at the time as he does throughout the book amassing a wealth of first hand accounts. Taylor’s piano and composing style, Ferrari writes, changes dramatically as it became a quartet, hard bop giving way to modal music, the modernism of the music analogous to the Paul Klee-like gig posters Taylor sometimes painted.

Chapter three deals with the making and subsequent release in 1966 of Pendulum an album that took a new look at jazz standards and mixed these with new Taylor tunes including one that was a tribute to Spanish guitarist Segovia. Lauded by Ian Carr who had introduced Taylor to producer Denis Preston as “a landmark in British jazz” the trumpeter and bandleader points to the lack of “old clichés” in the writing.

Worth reading particularly alongside Alyn Shipton’s Ian Carr biography Out of The Long Dark for more period flavour, Out of Nowhere could do with an index and a bibliography although there is a useful appendix and a slim discography. Besides Pendulum Taylor’s only other album as sole leader was 1967’s Trio an album Ferrari regards as “Taylor's masterpiece.” There are photos but they’re not brilliantly reproduced by today’s high quality standards and Ferrari gets a number of small things wrong – eg Radio 3 did not start until 1967: it was the Third programme when Jazz Record Requests played Taylor’s music – but not a lot that really jars although chapter five could certainly do with some judicious editing and there are a few too many passages where the wayward syntax makes the sense very unclear.

A sad tale, ultimately, Taylor’s life fell apart as his marriage collapsed and his consumption of LSD began to make his behaviour highly erratic, his once conventional lifestyle a distant thing of the past. “Barefoot and ragged and carrying a small drum,” was how writer Dave Gelly remembered seeing Taylor not long before his death, the decline a shock to all who knew him and loved his music so well.

Published by Gonzo Multimedia. Available from Amazon for around £10."

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The press release of the book.

This is the press release of the book, edited by Glass Onyon PR (run by musician/writer Billy James - http://www.glassonyonpr.com):

 

New Book On Elusive Jazz Composer, Pianist and Co-Songwriter for Cream, Mike Taylor - Now Available

London, UK - Jazz buffs worldwide are excited about the new book documenting the life of elusive British jazz composer, pianist and co-songwriter for classic rock legends Cream, Mike Taylor. Titled "Out Of Nowhere", the biography was written by Italian underground author Luca Ferrari and published by UK's Gonzo Multimedia.

Having rehearsed and written extensively throughout the early 1960s, Mike Taylor recorded two albums for the Lansdowne series produced by Denis Preston: "Pendulum" (1966) with drummer Jon Hiseman, bassist Tony Reeves and saxophonist Dave Tomlin) and "Trio" (1967) with Hiseman and bassists Jack Bruce and Ron Rubin. They were released on Columbia Records UK.

During his brief recording career, several of Taylor's pieces were played and recorded by his contemporaries. Three Taylor compositions were recorded by Cream, with lyrics by drummer Ginger Baker ("Passing the Time", "Pressed Rat and Warthog" and "Those Were the Days"), all of which appeared on the band's August 1968 album "Wheels Of Fire". Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra's September 1968 recording "Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe" features one original Taylor composition "Ballad" and an arrangement by him of a Segovia piece "Study".

Mike Taylor drowned in the River Thames near Leigh-on-Sea, Essex in January 1969, following years of reported heavy drug use. He had been homeless for two years, and his death was almost entirely unremarked.

In 2007, the independent record label, Dusk Fire Records, released for the first time "Mike Taylor Remembered", a 1973 tribute to the musician recorded by Neil Ardley, Jon Hiseman, Ian Carr, Barbara Thompson, and other major modern British jazz players.

And now in 2015, Gonzo Multimedia has published "Out of Nowhere", the first biography on Mike Taylor written by Italian author Luca Ferrari.

Says Luca, "My book was a real challenge because apart two good articles nothing was known about Mike Taylor, just some dates from his past, often fakes, never verified. Listening his few records (thanks my friend Dave Tomlin) I discovered this wonderful obscure world of sounds, a very rare dimension of intimacy, made of experimentations and great sensibility... In his short artistic life there's a surprising rapid progression (evolution) from standard hard-bop (Horace Silver) style to a temperate free-jazz (with "Trio"), very exclusive and original (personal) also in that greatly original English scene gravitating around the Old Place and the Little Theatre, after that it seems as all the things was told and nothing is left to tell: his personal life, with the painful collapse of his marriage, through the experience of acid (LSD) explodes his middle-class culture and defined a new freaked personality, without roots, personal relations, homes... Last two years was a tragic painful wandering around London, often near Kew and Richmond Park, until his sudden death in the water of Thames... Anyway, thanks to some very good journalists (Richard Morton Jack and Duncan Heining) and a sensitive label owner (Peter Muir) the memory of him is not lost. This book is a sort of reparative way to celebrate his musical genius and to recollect his life."

Luca Ferrari is an Italian underground writer. He has written several books about folk and rock musicians including Third Ear Band, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, and Syd Barrett for the main Italian publishers. He has written several articles and reviews for Italian magazines such as Ciao 2001, Vinile, Buscadero, and Rockerilla. He met Syd Barrett in 1986 and contributed to the reunion of the Third Ear Band during the 1980s.

Having run Italian fanzines about Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett since 1979, he worked together with Ivor Trueman (who was running the fanzines The Amazing Pudding and Opel) about a petition in order to allow the release of the album "Opel". His book "Tatuato sul Muro: L'enigma di Syd Barrett", published in January 1986, sold well in Italy and was worldwide the first biographical book about the controversial, and at the time even more enigmatic, figure of Syd Barrett.

In 1993 he contributed an essay to the Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) book titled "Stand Up To Be Discontinued. The art of Don Van Vliet" (Cantz edition) and in 2011 he provided expert advice to the book titled "Barrett" (Essential Works Limited, London 2012), edited by Russell Beecher and Will Shutes.

His book about Italian folk music titled "Folk Geneticamente Modificato" (2003) is one of the few contributions ever published in Italy.

And now, Luca Ferrari's new book on Mike Taylor "Out Of Nowhere" is available!

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Mike Taylor bio now available on Amazon.co.uk

"Out of Nowhere", the Mike Taylor biography is available at Amazon.co.uk at the page 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Nowhere-Luca-Ferrari/dp/1908728485/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435852963&sr=1-5&keywords=gonzo+multimedia

Here's the front and back cover of the book:

The book will be printed by English publisher Gonzo Multimedia.

The book on Mike Taylor will be printed by Gonzo Multimedia, an English publisher specialised in realizing music and books about progressive rock music.

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/ 

Finally the book is finished, thanks to everyone who helps me...

Finally after about two years of hard work my book about Mike Taylor is finished! 

First of all I wish to thank everyone who helps me in doing it with memories, documents, rare photos, unrealised drawings and scores...

I hope it will be a very interesting book for Mike's fans and jazz followers. It's full of rare stuff and first-hand stories by great musicians as Jon Hiseman, Ron Rubin, Trevor Watts, John Mumford, Pete Brown, Evan Parker...

My challenge has been to give Mike Taylor his life back after a long oblivion where also  his few great albums was totally missed.

Now my intention is to publish it in English, so publishers interested into printing it can contact me at: dopachino@tiscali.it