ABC-Paramount – ABC-134Rec. Date : January 1956 Stream 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…
ABC-Paramount – ABC-112Rec. Date : January 1, 1956, January 2, 1956 Stream this Album 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…
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 Miami Herald (Miami, FL)Fred Sherman : 05/19/1957 Still on piano, I’d like to suggest a record store browsing through When Lights Are Low by the…
Prestige – PRLP 7051Rec. Date : September 07, 1954 Stream this Album Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayCongas : CándidoDrums : Percy Brice Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #120Sept 7, 1954 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…
Prestige – PRLP 7001Rec. Date : April 10, 1955 Stream this Album Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Percy Brice Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #142April 10, 1955 High FidelitySeptember 1955 Billy Taylor is an unusually capable pianist who has disdained stylistic eccentricities in favor of well integrated, clearly defined performances. Probably it…
