Stephen James Taylor
| Stephen James Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Film Music |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Instruments | Guitars, keyboards, homemade instruments |
| Years active | 1978 – present |
| Website | http://www.stephenjamestaylor.com |
Stephen James Taylor is a Los Angeles-based composer best known for his film and TV scores with 4 Emmy nominations ('93 and '97), 2 Annie nominations ('99 and '00) and a DVD-X Award on "Best Original Score (for a DVD Premiere Movie) to date ('05). His style is a blend of pop, classical, jazz, world music and experimental surround sound genres.
One of the ways he achieves his sound is by working with a larger palette of notes than those allowed on conventional instruments. He introduced microtonality to the vocabulary of film music with his ground breaking score to THE GIVING (1992, Eames Demetrios) composed solely using a scale with 58 tones per octave, unequal. Other Taylor scores incorporating microtonal cues include: Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film) (Warner Brothers Pictures) 1998, Gregory Nava, Timon & Pumbaa (TV series) (1995–98),Mickey Mouse Works (1998–2000), THE FINAL INSULT (1997 Charles Burnett), POWERS OF TIME (1996 Eames Demetrios), A QUESTION OF FAITH (2000 Tim Disney), The Glass Shield (1995 Charles Burnett), Black Panther (TV series) (2010 Reginald Hudlin, Marvel), THE EAMES ALUMINUM CHAIR, and A GATHERING OF ELEPHANTS (Eames Demetrios 2007, 2008).
Taylor has written the scores to most of the feature films of Charles Burnett including the award winning, To Sleep With Anger (Sony Pictures), The Glass Shield, Selma, Lord, Selma, Oprah Winfrey's, The Wedding (TV miniseries), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation for which he won best score at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival. For director, Robert Townsend (actor), he has scored several projects including Holiday Heart for Showtime, and the recent feature film about the life of Sonny Liston, Phantom Punch (film), starring Ving Rhames. Other credits include the HBO movie, BOYCOTT, directed by Clark Johnson, the Disney animated theatrical release, Teacher's Pet (film), as well as a number of television, cable and direct to video movies including the 2016 film Southside With You, which dramatizes the first date between President Barack Obama and his future wife, Michelle Robinson, and the documentary Maya Angelou And Still I Rise.
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