DIONE TAYLOR

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With her sparkling sophomore release, I Love Being Here With You, songstress Dione Taylor has emerged as a fully-formed and exciting young artist. While unmistakably a jazz album, I Love Being Here With You reflects Dione Taylor’s love and background in gospel, rhythm & blues and soul. Her rich and smoky voice has a truly soulful quality, one attractively complemented by her keenly trained musical ear. This combination of soulfulness and subtlety is an irresistible one. To record her latest album, I Love Being Here With You, Dione paired up with producers Doug Riley (Ray Charles, David Clayton-Thomas, The Brecker Brothers) and Sandy Mamane (Dione Taylor). “I’ve always been a big fan of Doug Riley and loved the results of the last album with Sandy so all three of us put our heads together and made some magic! ” The producers helped assemble an ace team of players including Jake Langley, Guido Basso, Pat LaBarbera, Terry Clarke and international piano virtuoso, Benny Green. Another special guest on the album is vocal jazz sensation Denzal Sinclaire. He duets with Dione on the tender and romantic title track “I Love Being Here With You” an original composition of Dione’s. The disc is stylistically eclectic, exciting and adventurous yet accessible and entertaining.



Dione Taylor burst onto the music scene in 2004 with her debut album "Open Your Eyes" and performances for both the President of the United States and the Queen of England. The past years' remarkable career trajectory is one that Dione Taylor has traveled with grace, determination and true talent. No wonder this young jazz vocalist is now being hailed as an incandescent rising star on the Canadian musical firmament.



Dione Taylor's 2004 debut recording, "Open Your Eyes" (Matay Records), did exactly that for the Canadian jazz community. Sensing the arrival of a true artist in their midst, they responded quickly and positively. The album earned nominations at the 2005 Juno Awards, the Canadian Urban Music Awards, the National Jazz Awards and was named one of the Top Recordings of 2004 by Canada's Premier Jazz Station, Jazz.FM 91.1. That station placed three tracks from "Open Your Eyes" in regular rotation, and the album received unanimous thumbs-up verdicts from music critics. Impressive airplay in Europe, Asia and the U.S. has helped the disc find its way into the homes and hearts of music lovers around the globe.



Ms. Taylor notes: "One of my goals is to preserve and uphold the tradition of jazz and that means going back to the roots which is the blues."