Maybe the thing i love about Mick Taylor, which perhaps i don't see so much in some of the guitar greats like Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix etc. is perhaps more of a jazz influence. Maybe it is his more free flowing, improvised style of jazz influences many of his fans love about his playing, and less the influence of the blues?

More likely booze these days!!

He does improvise but To me the sound is still blues.

Not much jazz, mainly blues.
Matbe a lil more blues with the booze.

the main style is blues, but he uses some "modes" and adds them to the normal blues-scales.

blues

No. His start with the Bluesbreakers at such a young age set his course and defined his playing style for his career in my personal opinion, I would call it blues with a slight twist of jazz.



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Albert King

I think that there have been periods in his post stones career when there was some jazzy sounding note or phrasing added to his solos, but always in a blues/rock context. There were also some latin influences for waht matters.

All in all, I'd say that "blues" remains his main influence. The last time I heard him live I can say for sure he has returned to a more orthodox blues synthax.

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Which jazz player would he be influenced by?

The latin influences are evident from the the slightly santana-esque stuff he played on occasion.
I think that the subject of MT's influences is an interseting part of his subsequent failure to produce much noteable work since leaving the band.
He doesn't seem to have much direction of his own.
He needs a strong band structure and identity to give form to his playing...be it the equally clearly defined jobs within the Bluesbreakers or the Stones.

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Maybe the thing i love about Mick Taylor, which perhaps i don't see so much in some of the guitar greats like Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix etc. is perhaps more of a jazz influence. Maybe it is his more free flowing, improvised style of jazz influences many of his fans love about his playing, and less the influence of the blues?

You made a bad choice inclduing Hendrix in there as he had a lot of 'jazz' influence in his playing! From his first album right till the end.

What playing of Mick Taylors sounds jazz influenced to you?

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What playing of Mick Taylors sounds jazz influenced to you?

"Giddy Up" and "Spanish/A Minor", from his 1979 solo debut, are not merely jazz influenced, they ARE jazz.

Mostly blues, but also jazz, latin and fusion...

MT could play with this guys band, which has a jazzy feel......plus, plenty to eat........BAM!!!


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What playing of Mick Taylors sounds jazz influenced to you?

"Giddy Up" and "Spanish/A Minor", from his 1979 solo debut, are not merely jazz influenced, they ARE jazz.

I don't have it, can you link me to anywhere where I can have a listen?

I'd agree with most of the above, MT plays blues with a touch of jazz, but sometimes there's more jazz in there.

I also think he's very influenced by Hendrix - he plays in a similar way at times, especially the way he goes off at a tangent during a solo etc.

Which is all a good thing of course.

(Hendrix is a mix of blues and jazz also).

Mick must have explored his jazz influences later then as there really isn't any jazz present in his playing during his time with the stones.

He stepped outside of the pentatonic scales during his stint with them, especially towards the end, but that's not really playing jazz as such.

Perhaps there's a difference between inventiveness and experimentation on the one hand, and full-on jazz on the other. The latter will include the former, but not necessarily vice versa. I guess MT mainly displayed the former in his time with the Stones.

His (more recent) playing is hard to define then I guess, a kind of cross-over or fusion(?) musician?

This is a pretty useless question though. There's no definition of jazz, and none of blues either. They overlap all the time, in fact, most jazz is incredibly bluesy and slow blueses are often jazzy. You could ask: by WHO was he inspired, not by what style.

Yeah and of course, even if you are influenced by jazz, it doesn't mean that you will use that influence in a jazzy way/context.

There is a very obvious example of where Eric Clapton was influenced by jazz, the solo to Sunshine of your Love has a direct 'quote' of the melody from Blue Moon at the start.