Dub Taylor (1)

The author’s love of music and jazz goes back to that last 20th century when he began listening to records and collecting LPs. He flipped the first time he heard Thelonious Sphere Monk those many years ago. It changed him forever. He then wanted to know why no one had never published a detailed discography of all the Thelonious Monk recordings, which also included color reproductions of the album covers. Finally, years later and tired of waiting, he hooked up with a smart publisher, Genius Books, and decided to take on the challenging project himself! The result is this book, Monk’s Music, Thelonious Monk: An Illustrated Discography, A Guide to the Recordings. Dub Taylor has decades of experience in many facets of the music and record business. Starting out as a teenager working in a local record shop, he went on to become a retail manager and shop owner. This led him to record distribution, promotion, recording, sound and mastering engineering, and album production. He created the record label, Varèse International, while producing his own album, Lumière for Synthesized and Concrète Sound. He was one of the founders of Varèse Sarabande Records, which later became known worldwide as the premiere film score and soundtrack label. Over the years, Dub Taylor has also been involved in the visual arts as a painter, photographer, and graphic designer.