Paul Taylor - Solo Piano (NFOJAiM 2025)

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Lit & Phil | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

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Paul Taylor (Solo Piano)
The Literary and Philosophical Society (The Loftus Room)
Friday 3rd October 2025
Doors: 12.30pm (Music Starts 1.00pm - 1.45pm / 2.00pm)
Tickets are priced at £8 with an optional £2 festival donation available (+ Booking Fee)
Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
This concert is presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with The Literary and Philosophical Society and Jazz North East.

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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor (Solo Piano)
Paul Taylor is an accomplished pianist and keyboard player specialising in improvisation. The music is evocative, alluring and unique; combining unusual harmonies and sonorities with an original and fluid technique.
Paul has emerged as one of the most consistently interesting and innovative solo pianists of recent times, combining elements of jazz improvisation with an unorthodox, harmonically complex and often compellingly beautiful musical language that is often inspired by the classical tradition.
It is music that is both inspiring and relaxing, taking the listener on an immersive journey.
“Brilliant" - Stuart Maconie, BBC Radio 6 (Freak Zone)
"A rare phenomenon” - International Piano Magazine
"A Chopin of the contemporary art music era” - Neil March (Exile FM)
Paul's music can be found on Bandcamp
https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com
"Those hands delineate a high-yielding path inside the secret rooms of a harmony that draws colours and nuances from romantic pasts, transcendental visions, defined yet shifting tonalities...an instrumentalist whose inner depth and speed of translation from intuition to creative act appear to be in direct proportion" - Massimo Ricci (Touching Extremes)

"A very assured work indeed” - Jazzwise
Paul Taylor has previously released two albums through the festival’s associated New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings project.
Via
https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/album/via
Interludes
https://paulstephentaylor.bandcamp.com/album/interludes

The Literary and Philosophical Society
The Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE
0191 232 0192 / [email protected]
www.litandphil.org.uk

The Literary and Philosophical Society
Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.
Accessibility: The Loftus Room at The Lit and Phil is partly accessible. There is a lift at the venue entrance for wheelchair users to access the building and performance space, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building.
The festival has permissions for visiting wheelchair users to access toilets located on the ground floor in Sleeperz Hotel which is just a few doors down (16 ft) to the right of the Lit and Phil as you exit the building.
Accessible toilets are also available at 5 Quarter Cafe Bar to the left as you exit the building.
The Private Members Library is not a wheelchair accessible space and is preceded by a small number of stairs.
Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Central Station which is located less than 300 ft from the venue (approximately 2 minutes walk).
There is limited street parking, the closest car park is at Central Station
(Charges may apply).
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The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE, United Kingdom

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