DESCRIPTION:
Metro's 2001 compilation Espionage: The Very Best of the James Taylor Quartet collects much of the best of the James Taylor Quartet's recordings from the early '90s, capturing their stylishly funky acid jazz quite well. There are two covers of Booker T. & the MG's -- "Green Onions" and "Be My Girl" -- some '60s and '70s film and TV covers ("Mission Impossible," "Blow Up," "Theme from Dirty Harry," "Starsky and Hutch") and those two extremes pretty much capture what the quartet sounds like: funky soul given a cinematic spin. This well-chosen, well-annotated collection provides a good introduction to their world.

Trackllistings

1. Mission Imposible
2. Be My Girl
3. Untitled no 1
4. Blow Up
5. Green Onions [Live]
6. Cat
7. Money Spyder
8. Strol
9. Car Chase
10. Theme from Dirty Harry
11. In the Hand of the Inevitable
12. Stepping into My Life - Alison Limerick
13. Europa
14. Haitian Breakdown/Starsky and Hutch [Live]