About Fred Taylor Music Page

Fred Taylor is a drummer, composer, arranger, and producer. He started out at age 5 as a classical piano student in Spokane, Washington, and took up drums at age 10. As a young man, he learned his craft at the hands of master teachers in Spokane and Bellevue, Washington. He played in the school bands through high school, and played his first 'professional' gigs in Spokane at around age 14. After early graduation from high school, he went on the road with a succession of bands and acts, interrupted by one year of college. He traveled around the US and western Canada playing country, rock, funk, and all the current '70s top 40 stuff, with the occasional orchestral or musical job. After settling down in the Seattle area, he started working extensively in the local music community, playing multiple genres, weddings, parties, theater shows, all the clubs, ballrooms, hotels, and military bases within a 100-mile radius of Seattle. He did many recording sessions; some were published 45s and LPs, others demos, and TV and radio jingles. From about 1978 on, he always had a small studio setup to work with in composing, as well as recording demos and acoustic concerts, etc. He led his own bands in the jazz/fusion realm; among them Inquest and Sanctuary, which featured wonderful writing and playing by such local talents as Gary Rollins, Craig Lawrence and the late Dana Brayton. For a long period he worked part-time in music and full-time in his family's business, and then became a computer consultant in the early 1990s and traveled the country doing very specialized systems, many of which he wrote himself. For about two years in the mid-90s his musical endeavors slowed down greatly, only to be revived in 1999 when Gary Rollins, Ed Weber and Fred put together a new Inquest group. Since that period he took up part-time residence in New Jersey, composing, recording, and performing in the New York City area for about five years before marrying and moving back to his home in Mukilteo. In 2017 he turned 63 years old and has been playing drums for 53 years. In 2017 Fred and his wife Demaree left the Seattle area and settled in Rising Fawn, Georgia, outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Here is a list of musicians, bands, and venues throughout the U.S. and Canada with whom he's performed. If you're not on it and should be, please send him a mail and he'll hook you up!

Seattle area:

A Choice of Colors
Al Turay - guitar
Bill Wells Express
Bruce Phares - bass
Bruce Wilson - woodwinds
Chuck Metcalf-bass
Clarence Pinckney
Clipper Anderson - bass
Connie Evingson - vocals
Country Zephyrs
Cozzetti-Gemmill Band
Craig Lawrence - woodwinds
Dana Brayton - piano
Dave Lewis - keyboards
Dave Pascal - bass
Dave Peterson - guitar
Dean Johnson - bass
Dehner Franks -piano
Denny Goodhew - woodwinds
Dewey Marler - woodwinds
Dianne Schuur-vocals
Dick Fisher-Elvis, comedy
Doug Miller - bass
Ed Hartman - percussion
Ed Weber - piano
Eddie Creed-piano
Ernestine Anderson-vocals
Evind Kang - violin, bass
Gary Lee Rollins - guitar
Gary Peacock - bass
Geoff Koch - bass
George Shangrow - piano
Greg Marvin - Tenor Sax
Greta Matassa-vocals
Howard Roberts-guitar
Howard Schanzer - guitar
Inquest
James Clark - bass
James Knapp-trumpet
Janice Lakers - vocals
Jazz Dance
Jeff Hay - trombone
Jeff Johnson - bass
Jeff Simmons
Jerry Hegarty and the Country Uncles
Jimmy Witherspoon -vocals
John Holte Radio King Orchestra
Kathy Hart and the Signatures
Ken Cloud Orchestra
Kendra Shank - vocals
Lee Hibbert Quartet
Maia Santell - vocals
Mark Lewis-sax, flute
Michael Bisio - bass
Midnight Caravan
Murl Allen Sanders - accordion, keyboards
Nadine Shanti-vocals
Peggy Stern-piano
Pete Leinonen - bass
Phil Sheeran - guitar
Plumbarrie
Rebecca Rosenberg - vocals
Richard Warner-flute
Roadside Attraction (Big Band)
Roadside Attraction (Rock band)
Robbie Jordan - saxophone
Robert Baker - bass
Robert Shangrow – bass, vocals
Ronnie Pierce - woodwinds
Sanctuary
Steve Allen - bassv
Steve Wolfe - Tenor Sax
Ted Brancato - keyboards
Terry King Band
Tickled Pink
Turrell Prude-piano, organ
Vonne Griffin - vocals
Wayne Bell and the Bell Brothers Band
Wyatt Howard Orchestra
Zephyr (folk-rock band)

New York/New Jersey area:

Adrian Moring - bass
Akiko Tsuruga - Hammond
Anthony Nelson - woodwinds
Bob Ackerman - woodwinds
Bob deVos -guitar
Carrie Jackson - vocals
Dan Kostelnik - Hammond, piano
Dolores 'LaLa' Brooks (the Crystal's lead singer "Da Doo Ron Ron")
Enrico Granafei - guitar, harmonica
Freddie Hendrix - trumpet
Gene Cornish - guitar
Gianni Russo ('Carlo' in "The Godfather")
Gil 'BeBop' Benson -vocals
Gloria Coleman - Hammond
Gregory Rivken - trumpet
Jason Marshall - woodwinds
Jason Teborek - piano
Joey Morant – trumpet
John di Martino - piano
John Hart - guitar
Laura Hull - vocals
Lou Watson - piano
Mark Gross - woodwinds
Nat Adderly Jr - piano
Nat Janoff - guitar
Not Yet
Pam Purvis - vocals
Pat Bianchi - Hammond
Radam Schwartz - Hammond
Rasheed and the Jazz Collective
Rick Crane - bass
Rio Clemente - piano
Roy Meriwether - piano
Steve Freeman - bass
Steve LaSpina - bass
Steve Turre' - trombone
Steve Wilson - woodwinds
Ted Curson - trumpet
Thaddeus Expose - bass
Tomoko Ohno - piano
Vic Juris - guitar

Rest of U.S. and Western Canada:

Ferlin Husky - country
Pete Barbutti - comedy
Tickled Pink - R and B/Soul/Jazz

Fred Taylor Music started in 1978 as a 4-track studio in a double-wide trailer in Bothell, Washington. (The site is now underneath Mill Creek Town Centre). Originally called Crinkle Music, the little outfit was popular with local acts who needed good demos in a hurry. The studio was also used to produce demos for several of the bands that Fred played in at the time, including the Cozzetti-Gemmill Quartet, Sanctuary, and JazzDance. He was also busy producing acts in some of the larger studios in town, as well as doing session work and arrangements. Now renamed Rising Fawn Recording, the studio was relocated to Rising Fawn, Georgia, and opened in 2018. It is powered by Macintosh and runs Pro Tools, Cubase, and Logic Pro. Rising Fawn is a full-service production house, offering everything necessary to produce great music:
- a fine digital studio
- instrumental arranging
- musical contracting
- Videography and photography
- Audio sweetening and editing
- Video editing
- Graphics and layout services
- Mailing and marketing
- Computer systems programming, Web design, and repair.
Call us today for information at 706-398-0007.

Fred Taylor
The Rising Fawn Studios mixing desk

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