“Middlebury College professor and composer Matthew Evan Taylor's "Life Returns" celebrates the coming of Springtime, and will have its digital premiere on February 14th.”

She sang while accompanying herself on a spinet piano, both in her home in Birmingham, Ala., and at her local church, the Saint Paul Smithfield AME Church, where she often took her grandson.

“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”

What began as an attempt by Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.

When the formally clad musicians in a string quartet raise their instruments, pose together in utter silence, and then start pounding out West African drumming rhythms, literally using the bodies of their instruments as percussion, you know you’re in for something different.

Miami-based composer and saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor’s career has formed an impressive arc.

“Elemental Culture” brought them to back to the basics: how to create works of art that have a tangible impact on the community and give back just as much as they take.

Matthew Evan Taylor, the first interviewee, is a composer whose work is taking a radical leap forward—into ballet and marionettes—thanks in part to the support of Here & Now.