Billy Taylor - The Complete Recordings: 1945-1955 (2014)

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Artist: Billy Taylor
Title: The Complete Recordings: 1945-1955
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Tritone
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 3:38:44
Total Size: 700 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

01. Monk's Mood (Mad Monk)
02. Solace
03. Night and Day
04. Alexander's Ragtime Band
05. Willow Weep for Me
06. The Very Thought of You
07. Somebody Loves Me
08. Good Groove
09. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
10. What Is There to Say
11. If I Had You
12. Thou Swell
13. Cu-Blue
14. Squeeze Me
15. The Cuban Caper
16. Feeling Frisky
17. Makin' Whoopee
18. Titoro (Titora)
19. Moonlight Savings Time
20. Cuban Nightingale
21. Lady Bird (Live)
22. I'm Beginning to See the Light (Live)
23. All the Things You Are (Live)
24. Laura (Live)
25. What Is This Thing Called Love (Live)
26. Sleep
27. Besame Mucho
28. I Don't Want to Walk Without You
29. Fiesta
30. Tune for Tex
31. Moonlight in Vermont
32. I'll Be Around
33. Biddy's Beat
34. Eddie's Theme
35. Mood for Mendes
36. Goodbye
37. Lullaby of Birdland
38. They Can't Take That Away from Me
39. All Too Soon
40. Accent on Youth
41. Give Me the Simple Life
42. Little Girl Blue
43. Man with a Horn
44. Let's Get Away from It All
45. Lover
46. Cool and Caressing
47. Who Can I Turn To?
48. My One and Only Love
49. Tenderly
50. I've Got the World on a String
51. Bird Watcher
52. B.T.'s D.T.'s
53. That's All
54. The Little Things That Mean so Much
55. Nice Work If You Can Get It
56. Surrey with the Fringe on Top
57. Mambo Inn
58. Bit of Bedlam
59. Declivity
60. Love for Sale
61. A Live One
62. Different Bells

Billy Taylor was an amazingly articulate spokesman for jazz, and his profiles on CBS' Sunday Morning television program (where he was a regular beginning in 1981) were so successful at introducing jazz to a wider audience, that sometimes one could forget what a talented pianist he was for over half-a-century. While not an innovator, Taylor was flexible enough to play swing, bop, and more advanced styles while always retaining his own musical personality. After graduating from Virginia State College in 1942, he moved to New York and played with such major musicians as Ben Webster, Eddie South, Stuff Smith (with whom he recorded in 1944), and Slam Stewart, among others. In 1951, he was the house pianist at Birdland and soon afterward formed his first of many trios. He helped found the Jazzmobile in 1965. In 1969 he became the first Black band director for a network television series (The David Frost Show). He earned his doctorate at the University of Massachusetts in 1975 and founded and served as director for the popular radio program Jazz Alive. Despite his activities in jazz education, Taylor was rarely absent from performances and recordings, always keeping his bop-based style consistently swinging and fresh. He died of heart failure in New York on December 28, 2010, at the age of 89. ~ Scott Yanow

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