BOSTONGLOBE.COM — Taylors make large donation to support work of MGH doctor

October 22, 2014 Published by Aaron Comments Off on BOSTONGLOBE.COM — Taylors make large donation to support work of MGH doctor

By Mark Shanahan and Meredith Goldstein

Singer James Taylor and his wife, Kim, were among the attendees at Saturday’s Storybook Ball, an annual fund-raiser for the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, and they came bearing a substantial gift.

The Taylors announced a $500,000 donation to help Mass. General’s chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Dr. William Gerald (Jay) Austen Jr., expand his efforts to provide surgery to needy children.

FINANCIAL TIMES – James Taylor, Royal Albert Hall, London

October 8, 2014 Published by Aaron Comments Off on FINANCIAL TIMES – James Taylor, Royal Albert Hall, London

By David Cheal

The singer took his audience on a journey down the highways and byways of a life in music.

Sweet-voiced, gentle, avuncular and twinkly, James Taylor is not the kind of pop star to set pulses soaring; rather, his music is soothing balm for the soul, often shot through with a dash of wistful regret, and augmented these days by an aura of wisdom that’s accentuated by the eagleish contours of his head.

BOURNEMOUTHECHO.CO.UK: James Taylor, BIC: ‘nicest man in music’ delivers belter of a show

October 6, 2014 Published by Aaron Comments Off on BOURNEMOUTHECHO.CO.UK: James Taylor, BIC: ‘nicest man in music’ delivers belter of a show

By Debbie Moore IF there was an award for the nicest man in music, the name permanently engraved on the trophy would surely be James Taylor’s.

The genial, gentlemanly singer songwriter has been delighting fans with his melodic, memorable tunes and distinctive guitar picking since before some of his audience were even born, yet the smile never leaves his face as he performs songs he’s done a thousand times before.

BELFASTTELEGRAPH.CO.UK: James Taylor review: His classic songs remain ageless as he takes to the stage in Belfast

September 26, 2014 Published by Aaron Comments Off on BELFASTTELEGRAPH.CO.UK: James Taylor review: His classic songs remain ageless as he takes to the stage in Belfast

Of all the survivors from that gilded era of American singer songwriters, James Taylor's voice easily still remains the most resonant.

His songs captured the growing introspection of a hippy movement, which to paraphrase Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, spent the 1960s expanding their consciousness and the 1970s trying to get rid of it.

But though Taylor entered the Waterfront Hall with the bemused demeanour of an absent-minded professor, as soon as he sat down to sing Something In The Way She Moves – a song that he auditioned to Paul McCartney and a note-taking George Harrison in 1968 – the years just fell away.

PLYMOUTHHERALD.CO.UK: James Taylor live at Plymouth Pavilions

September 8, 2014 Published by Aaron Comments Off on PLYMOUTHHERALD.CO.UK: James Taylor live at Plymouth Pavilions

By CLARE ROBINSON Music Writer IF THERE were any doubt at all that we were truly in the presence of musical greatness at Plymouth Pavilions last night, we only had to look at the drum kit, occupied by the great...

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