Mark Taylor (French horn)
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Mark Thomas Taylor (born May 22, 1961, Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American jazz French horn player and composer.
Taylor studied horn formally in his youth and took a bachelor's degree in music at the University of Tennessee, where he studied under Jerry Coker. He moved to Boston and continued his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music (1988-1990), playing during this time with Jimmy Giuffre, Max Roach, Oliver Lake, Sam Rivers, Abdullah Ibrahim, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Orange Then Blue (including for international tours). He also performed with Max Roach's brass quintet, So What Brass 5, which was active through the 1990s. In the 1990s he worked with Henry Threadgill's Very Very Circus, Lester Bowie, Ken Filiano, Matt Wilson, Lafayette Harris, Myra Melford, Fred Hopkins, and Grover Mitchell.[1]