Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor
Born: Jul 24, 1921 in Greenville, NC
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Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Standards, Ballads
Biography: Billy Taylor has been such an articulate spokesman for jazz, and his profiles on CBS' Sunday Morning television program (where he has been a regular since 1981) are so successful at introducing jazz to a wider audience, that sometimes one can forget how talented a pianist he has been for the past half-century. ...Read full biography
My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
Released: 1957
Label: Paramount
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Recorded at a time when My Fair Lady was a big Broadway hit (but a few years before it became a film), this CD reissue brings back one of the very best jazz interpretations of the classic score. The focus ...Read full review
The Billy Taylor Touch
Released: 1957
Label: Atlantic
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More Billy Taylor albums: Main Albums (60), Compilations (9)
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