Swearing off rock and roll in favor of jazz after the 1986 dissolution of his
band The Prisoners, organist James Taylor cobbled together three collaborators
to form the James Taylor Quartet (JTQ). After they played a set for the
influential British DJ John Peel, Taylor decided to abandon his music career,
but that recording led to interest from a label. This led to their 1987
breakthrough album, Mission Impossible, a collection of songs that dove
head-first into the sounds of psychedelic swinging 60s London with funk-laden
covers of Herbie Hancock’s score for Blow Up, Paul Simon’...