Billy Taylor – Cross Section (1957)

Prestige – PRLP 7071Rec. Dates : May 7, 1953, July 30, 1954 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Charlie Smith, Percy BricePercussion : Chico Guerrero, Jose Mangual, Ubaldo Nieto Listening to Prestige : #85, #116Album is Not Streamable Liner Notes by Ira Gitler Billy Taylor has, as Leonard Feather tells it in the Encyclopedia of Jazz, “won great respect among fellow musicians as

Billy Taylor Trio – Volume Two (1956)

Prestige – PRLP 7016Rec. Dates : November 2, 1953, December 29, 1953 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Charlie Smith Listening to Prestige : #95, #100Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 07/14/1956Score of 78 This is the second 12-inch set of reissued Taylor sides from Prestige, all of which have been brightened in the remastering. Cover also is similar to

Billy Taylor Trio – Volume One (1956)

Prestige – PRLP 7015Rec. Dates : November 18, 1952, December 10, 1952, November 2, 1953 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Charlie Smith Listening to Prestige : #71, #95Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 03/10/1956Score of 76 Some earlier Taylors have been sound-enhanced and remastered on 12-inch. New cover will also give this a new lease on life, as will