Condo Flute

Introduction to Condo

2008-10-26

Patrick Taylor: Flute Player Inspiring
Chicago With Soul

By Sondra Taylor

Patrick Taylor first-rate black flautist in Chicago area brings heavy soul-directed sounds to the city. His flute playing is guaranteed to blow your mind. Flautist Patrick Taylor makes music so rewarding. He plays in heavy rotation in the streets of Chicago on the el terminals and downtown streets. Occasionally Patrick performs in churches, banquets, weddings and at other gatherings. He enjoys expressing himself through music and is always crowd-pleasing when he performs. Some of Patricks tunes include christian spirituals such as Amazing Grace, Blessed Assurance, and Tico Tico Nofuba. He also plays jazz pieces, classical and contemporary. Most of Patricks inspiration to play jazz comes from flautists and musicians he admires such as
Herbert Laws,Grover Washington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker and Herbie Mann. He makes a unique fusion of jazz, brilliant rhythms and a soaring spiritual feel with his flute. Many tourist and travelers comming to Chicago marvel at the complexity of Patricks music.
Patrick first discovered his talent for the flute in his teenage years living in Cabrini Green Housing Project in Chicago Illinois around 1971. He is one of seven children (six boys and one girl). Eventhough he was occupied with such a large family , he still found time to be with his instrument and play. He studied with many instructors. He began to meet many musicians and began exploring his path to spiritual music as well as jazz and other music. Now living on the southside of Chicago, he continues to be an inspiration to himself and others. Patrick continued playing throughout his College career of Computer Programming at Loop Junior College and since then he has called Chicago his home. Chicago is where he reaches the soul of people with his flute. He inspires many other musicians with his original style. Patrick always kept his desire to study the flute since his days in Cabrini Green. Being surrounded by crime and decay in Cabrini Green, the flute introduced to him a world of beauty and power added with a touch of melodic soul. His forms of playing fit into many cultural context as well as black cultural context because, in Patricks word, you live; you learn; you pass it on. He does pass on his sounds to all cultures.
More interested in live performing and in getting his own thing going with the flute these days, rather than College works, Patrick sets up to play in the subways and streets of Chicago, when he is not doing other gigs. Patricks video can be found on YubeTube by doing a YubeTube search under condoflute and look for Blesses Assurance and Air From Overture in D and others coming soon.
He plans one day to work with ministers as he plays, to produce and write his own music, to make CDs, to be a part of workshops in energizing performances, to entertain outreach programs, and to play for family events and kids parties.

My Favorite Musician
Episode I

He plays on the street with a sack of bags,
Lumped under a cloth all draped in rags.
It makes me cheerful to hear his songs,
He plays on a flute all rusted and long.

He looks like a vagrant dressed in poor mans rags,
His boots curling over and smeared, how they lag.
It is a one man concert anyone can enjoy,
He knew just what to play for an inquisitive boy.

Amazing Grace he played, his favorite song,
The warmth, I felt it-sad, but not too long.
People pass by to show their appreciation in his container. Some cry!
Thank you, thank you, he says and counts the remainder.

His musical connection of chords is a maze,
Speakers, microphones, inverters, chargers-it puts me in a daze.
I get an electrical musical charge and delight.
This wired masterpiece on the street-what a sight!

Not much in earnings or elegant appeal,
He pays a vagrant for coffee and takes a sandwich for his meal,
He sits erect and his eyes never flutter,
His arms are in position, holding the flute, without a mutter.

My Favorite Musician
Episode II

The flute has an inspiring soothing tone,
So old it must be all that he owns.
I stopped to look at him to watch him play,
Remembering how he sits there day after day.

Through his flute playing he speaks, hour after hour.
He has a content facial expression, a half-happy smile, and practically little power.
An orchestration of classical pieces of every continent and culture,
Such a variety could to any origin-certainly not torture.

His sheet music faded from aging wear and wind on the street.
The sides of the paper crumble; still he reads the notes and keeps the beat.
He calls it equipment that sits as he plays,
So talkative he is about music or any subject on any days.

He looks to be in connection with the whole world on a small wage,
But no one knows him, hired or given him a stage.
Still he plays willingly. He drinks a little water and still plays-the alto flute.

Take a look at another video of Condo at http://cltv.trb.com/video/?clipId=2089921&topVideoCatNo=&c=76047&autoStart=true&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=

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Condo (also known as Patrick) wants to get you in tune to flute music. He is an experienced flautist in Chicago IL. He plays from deep in his soul and always gets a crowd.