Artist: Billy Taylor
Title: The Complete Recordings: 1955-1958
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Tritone
Genre: Jazz, Piano Jazz
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 05:02:10
Total Size: 796 mb | 1.3 gb
Tracklist:1. Billy Taylor - A Foggy Day (Live)
2. Billy Taylor - I'll Remember April (Live)
3. Billy Taylor - Sweet Georgia Brown (Live)
4. Billy Taylor - Theodora (Live)
5. Billy Taylor - How High the Moon (Live)
6. Billy Taylor - Early Bird
7. Billy Taylor - A Bientot
8. Billy Taylor - Memories of Spring
9. Billy Taylor - Ever so Easy
10. Billy Taylor - Day Dreaming
11. Billy Taylor - Radioactivity
12. Billy Taylor - Purple Mood
13. Billy Taylor - Long Tom
14. Billy Taylor - It's a Grand Night for Swinging
15. Billy Taylor - Blue Clouds
16. Billy Taylor - Live It Up
17. Billy Taylor - Daddy-O
18. Billy Taylor - Eddie's Theme
19. Billy Taylor - Mood for Mendes
20. Billy Taylor - Lullaby of Birdland
21. Billy Taylor - Goodbye
22. Billy Taylor - Tune for Tex
23. Billy Taylor - Moonlight in Vermont
24. Billy Taylor - Biddy's Beat
25. Billy Taylor - I'll Be Around
26. Billy Taylor - I Love to Mambo
27. Billy Taylor - Candido Mambo
28. Billy Taylor - Early Morning Mambo
29. Billy Taylor - Mambo Azul
30. Billy Taylor - Cheek to Cheek
31. Billy Taylor - It's Too Late Now
32. Billy Taylor - I Only Have Eyes for You
33. Billy Taylor - Then I'll Be Tired of You
34. Billy Taylor - All the Things You Are
35. Billy Taylor - But Not for Me
36. Billy Taylor - You Don't Know What Love Is (1958)
37. Billy Taylor - Satin Doll
38. Billy Taylor - More Than You Know
39. Billy Taylor - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
40. Billy Taylor - The London House
41. Billy Taylor - It Might as Well Be Spring
42. Billy Taylor - Gone with the Wind
43. Billy Taylor - Midnight Piano
44. Billy Taylor - I Cover the Waterfront
45. Billy Taylor - Stella by Starlight
46. Billy Taylor - So in Love
47. Billy Taylor - Imagination
48. Billy Taylor - Strolling
49. Billy Taylor - They Can't Take That Away from Me
50. Billy Taylor - Leslie's Gauge
51. Billy Taylor - In a Mellow Tone
52. Billy Taylor - You Don't Know What Love Is (1957)
53. Billy Taylor - Show Me
54. Billy Taylor - I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
55. Billy Taylor - With a Little Bit of Luck
56. Billy Taylor - The Rain in Spain
57. Billy Taylor - Get Me to the Church on Time
58. Billy Taylor - Wouldn't It Be Loverly
59. Billy Taylor - I Could Have Danced All Night
60. Billy Taylor - On the Street Where You Live
61. Billy Taylor - You Make Me Feel so Young
62. Billy Taylor - Early May
63. Billy Taylor - Can You Tell by Looking at Me
64. Billy Taylor - I Get a Kick out of You
65. Billy Taylor - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
66. Billy Taylor - Willow Weep for Me
67. Billy Taylor - Good Groove
68. Billy Taylor - What Is There to Say
69. Billy Taylor - Thou Swell
70. Billy Taylor - The Very Thought of You
71. Billy Taylor - Somebody Loves Me
72. Billy Taylor - There Will Never Be Another You (Live)
73. Billy Taylor - Sounds in the Night (Live)
74. Billy Taylor - The More I See You (Live)
75. Billy Taylor - Will You Still Be Mine (Live)
76. Billy Taylor - 'Round Midnight (Live)
77. Billy Taylor - There's a Small Hotel (Live)
78. Billy Taylor - I Never Get Enough of You (Live)
79. Billy Taylor - Titoros (Live)
Billy Taylor was such an 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 Taylor 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); in 1975 he earned his doctorate at the University of Massachusetts; and he both founded and served as director for the popular radio program Jazz Alive. But 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.
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