Vinyl Album - Billy Taylor - The Billy Taylor Touch - Atlantic

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Billy Taylor
Title:	The Billy Taylor Touch
Label:	Atlantic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	1277
Date:	Feb 1958
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Billy Taylor	You Make Me Feel So Young	Josef Myrow, Morris "Mack Gordon" Gittler	Rate
A2	Billy Taylor	Early May	Billy Taylor	Rate
A3	Billy Taylor	Can You Tell By Looking At Me	Billy Taylor	Rate
A4	Billy Taylor	I Get A Kick Out Of You	Cole Porter	Rate
A5	Billy Taylor	Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams	Ted Koehler, Billy Moll, Harry Barris	Rate
B1	Billy Taylor	Willow Weep For Me	Ann Ronnell	Rate
B2	Billy Taylor	Good Groove	Billy Taylor	Rate
B3	Billy Taylor	What Is There To Say	Edgar "Yip" Harburg, Vernon Duke	Rate
B4	Billy Taylor	Thou Swell	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Rate
B5	Billy Taylor	The Very Thought Of You	Ray Noble	Rate
B6	Billy Taylor	Somebody Loves Me	George "Buddy" DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald, George Gershwin	Rate

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Billy Taylor, who was a jazz pianist, composer and broadcaster, who had attended the Washington D. C.-based Dunbar High School, which was the first secondary school to enroll African-American students. Later, Mr. Taylor had attended Virginia State College where he initially majored in sociology, but changed his field of study to music.

After graduation, Mr. Taylor had relocated to New York to professionally play piano with both the Ben Webster Quartet and the Machito mambo band from which he developed a desire for Latin music. Mr. Taylor also became music director of The Subject Is Jazz, the first television series that had focused on jazz and was produced by the National Educational Television Network.

Less than a year before Mr. Taylor was the television jazz director, he had recorded this disc by means of Atlantic records. This disc was not a good seller, but Mr. Taylor continued to promote jazz music thru radio and television broadcasts until he suffered from a stroke and died of a heart attack.

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