ABC-Paramount – ABC-134Rec. Date : January 1956Stream this Album Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Billboard : 01/12/1957Score of 80 This LP might be subtitled “Study in piano styles.” Taylor has outdone himself to find a distinctive way of presenting each selection in the set; as a result, a many-faceted program is offered here. London House, is…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-112Rec. Date : January 1, 1956, January 2, 1956Stream this Album (YT only) Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Billboard : 04/14/1956Score of 80 In this, even more than in his previous LPs on Prestige, the incomparable modern jazz pianist offers turns and style and facility to satisfy all varieties of piano buyers.…
Prestige – PRLP 7093Rec. Date : December 17, 1954 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Listening to Prestige : #142Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 07/29/1957Score of 78 A reissue of an original 10-incher includes stretches of Taylor in a variety of moods. Six members range from the softly lyrical to some brilliant displays of right and…
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…
Prestige – PRLP 7051Rec. Date : September 07, 1954 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayCongas : CándidoDrums : Percy Brice Listening to Prestige : #120Stream this Album Billboard : 09/01/1956Score of 79 A re-issue of all the material on Prestige 10-inch LP 188 plus two previously unrecorded selections: A boppish Taylor original Declivity with some nice work by Cándido on conga…
Prestige – PRLP 7001Rec. Date : April 10, 1955 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Listening to Prestige : #142Stream this Album High Fidelity : September 1955 Billy Taylor is an unusually capable pianist who has disdained stylistic eccentricities in favor of well integrated, clearly defined performances. Probably it is this lack of a convenient…
