Taylor Quartet, The James - Wildflower / Guiding Light

JTQ Return to Acid Jazz… At the very birth of Acid Jazz there was the James Taylor Quartet.
Hammond player extraordinaire James Taylor was fresh from the split of The Prisoners when he
recorded Herbie Hancock’s ‘Theme From Blow Up’ and signed with Eddie Piller’s Re-Elect The
President label, the precursor of Acid Jazz. Then, in 1993, after albums for Polydor and Big Life,
Acid Jazz and James hooked up again and released ‘In The Hand Of The Inevitable’, for many the
finest JTQ album.
In March this year James found himself backstage at the Royal Albert Hall - The Brand New
Heavies were about to take the stage - with Acid Jazz’s Eddie Piller and Dean Rudland and a plot
was hatched... James returns to the label with this brand new 7-inch single: ‘Wildflower’ b/w
‘Guiding Light’.
The A-side is Bossa-nova tinged slice of sunshine pop featuring James’ vocals. It sounds like an
old private-press 45, unearthed in a dank warehouse basement in Oregon, and is another JTQ
classic. The flip takes us into jazz funk territory. Presented in a one-o^ version of the latest Acid
Jazz house-bag, with classic labels.