Tenor Saxophone.
The son of Evelyn Bundy, Taylor started playing tenor saxophone at age 17, studying with Frank Waldron. In 1947, while he and Quincy Jones were at Garfield High School, Taylor started a swing band with Quincy on trumpet and Buddy Catlett on alto saxophone. Bumps Blackwell offered to manage and book the group, renaming it the Bumps Black Junior Band and taking it all over the Northwest, including high society dances in the gated community of Broadmoor and a stint at the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in Vancouver, B.C. One night at the Eagles Auditorium, the band backed up Billie Holiday. Taylor gave up music after high school and became an anthropology professor.
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