Billy Taylor
American bop/hard bop pianist, educator, composer and band leader. Born: July 24, 1921 in Greenville, North Carolina - Died: December 28, 2010 in New York City, New York. He started his career in 1944.
Do NOT confuse with the swing bassist/composer Billy Taylor Sr. ("Finesse") ; both played with Don Byas, Cozy Cole etc. The two are not related.
Eight Classic Albums 1955-1962
Billy Taylor
2019
Enlightenment (3)
4xCD, Comp, Mono, RE, RM
Four Classic Albums
Billy Taylor
2016
Avid Jazz
2xCD, Comp
Six Classic Albums
Billy Taylor
2016
Real Gone Jazz
4xCD, Comp, RM
Four Classic Albums
Billy Taylor
2016
Avid Jazz
2xCD, Comp
Live at MCG
Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan
2007
MCG Jazz
CD, Album
Taylor Made At The Kennedy Center
Billy Taylor
2005
Kennedy Center Jazz Recordings
CD, Album
1952-1953
Billy Taylor
2005
Classics (11)
CD, Comp
1950-1952
Billy Taylor
2004
Classics (11)
CD, Comp
1945-1949
Billy Taylor
2000
The Billy Taylor Touch / One For Fun
Billy Taylor
1999
Collectables
CD, Comp
Jazz at the Kennedy Center Series Sampler
Billy Taylor, Grover Washington, Jr.
1999
NPR
CDr, Album, Ltd, Promo
Ten Fingers - One Voice
Billy Taylor
1998
Arkadia Jazz
CD, Album
Homage
Billy Taylor
1995
It's A Matter Of Pride
Billy Taylor
1994
Dr. T
Billy Taylor Featuring Gerry Mulligan
1993
The Jazzmobile Allstars
Billy Taylor
1989
We Meet Again
Ramsey Lewis / Billy Taylor
1989
Solo
Billy Taylor
1988
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 55
Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Billy Taylor, Attila Zoller
1981
Jazz Alive: The Billy Taylor Trio In Live Performance
Billy Taylor, The Billy Taylor Trio*
1979
Monmouth Evergreen
LP, Album
Juicy Lucy
Sal Salvador All-Star Quartet* Featuring Billy Taylor
1979
Bee Hive Records
LP, Album
Live At Storyville
Billy Taylor
1979
Echoes Of An Era The Erroll Garner - Billy Taylor Years
Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor
1976
Roulette, Nivel
LP, Comp, Mono
Skitch & Company - Program No. 161-164
Buddy Greco, Billy Taylor
1974
Army Reserve, Army Reserve
2xLP, Transcription
The Art Tatum - Erroll Garner - Bud Powell - Billy Taylor Years
Art Tatum - Erroll Garner - Bud Powell - Billy Taylor
1972
Joy To The World
David Frost & Billy Taylor
1970
Bell Records
7", Promo
Today!
Billy Taylor
1970
David Frost Presents OK Billy
Billy Taylor
1970
Break-A-Way / Dirty Ole Man
Billy Taylor
1970
From David Frost And Billy Taylor - Merry Christmas
David Frost, Billy Taylor
1970
Up-Tempo Taylor
Billy Taylor
1969
Love Songs
Earl Coleman Featuring Billy Taylor
1968
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Billy Taylor
1968
Right Here, Right Now!
Billy Taylor
1964
Capitol Records
7", Juk
Midnight Piano
Billy Taylor
1964
Right Here, Right Now!
Billy Taylor
1963
Impromptu
Billy Taylor
1962
Interlude
Billy Taylor
1961
Back Home
Billy Taylor
1960
Riverside Records
7"
Uptown
Billy Taylor
1960
Low Down Guitar
Mundell Lowe Quintet With Billy Taylor And Gene Quill
1960
Koolbongo / The Song Is Ended
Billy Taylor With Four Flutes
1959
Riverside Records
7"
Taylor Made Jazz
Billy Taylor
1959
One For Fun
Billy Taylor
1959
Billy Taylor With Four Flutes
Billy Taylor
1959
The New Billy Taylor Trio
Billy Taylor / Earl May / Ed Thigpen
1958
The Billy Taylor Touch
Billy Taylor
1958
Misty Blues
Billy Taylor
1957
Evergreens
Billy Taylor
1956
His Master's Voice
10", Album, Mono
At The London House
Billy Taylor
1956
His Master's Voice
LP, Album
Cross Section
Billy Taylor
1956
Creed Taylor Presents "Know Your Jazz No. 1 - The Rhythm Section
Billy Taylor - Oscar Pettiford - Kenny Clarke - Joe Roland
1956
At The London House
Billy Taylor
1956
Back To Back
Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor
1955
Savoy Records
LP, Comp, Mono
Separate Keyboards
Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor
1955
Billy Taylor At The Piano
Billy Taylor
1953
Atlantic, Atlantic
7", EP
Out Of Nowhere / Three Little Words
Mary Lou Williams And Her Orchestra / Billy Taylor
1953
Coral
Shellac, 10"
Three Little Words / Oscar Rides Again
Billy Taylor / Oscar Pettiford
1953
Brunswick
Shellac, 10"
Candido / Mambo Azul
Billy Taylor
1953
Prestige
Shellac, 10"
Jazz Pianist
Billy Taylor
1953
Savoy Records
10", Mono
Mambos
Billy Taylor
1953
Lyrics By Lerner
Kaye Ballard, Billy Taylor, Alan Jay Lerner
1953
Cuban Nightingale (Sun Sun Babae) / Makin' Whoopee
Billy Taylor
1952
Royal Roost
10"
Cu-Blu / Squeeze Me
Billy Taylor
1952
Royal Roost
Shellac, 10"
Billy Taylor at the piano vol.2
Billy Taylor
1951
Atlantic
7", EP
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
1951
The Very Thought Of You / Stridin' Down The Champs-Elysées
Billy Taylor
1947
Swing (3)
Shellac, 10"
Begin The Beguine / St. Louis Blues
Maurice Rocco And His Rockin' Rhythm With Cozy Cole, Billy Taylor
1946
Strictly Drums / Why Regret
Cozy Cole And His Quintette / Cozy Cole And Don Byas, Tiny Grimes, Wm. Taylor*, Billy Taylor*
1945
Guild Records (2)
Shellac, 10"
Now's The Time / Night Wind
Cozy Cole And Don Byas, Tiny Grimes, Wm. Taylor*, Billy Taylor*
1945
Guild Records (2)
Shellac, 10"
Let's Not Waltz Tonight / How About You? / Indiana / Good Luck
Zoot Sims / Mundell Lowe / Billy Taylor / Lucky Thompson
Jazzbox
7", EP, Gre
...Sweet N' Swing
Milt Buckner, Billy Taylor
BYG Records, BYG Records
LP, Comp
Billy Taylor At The London House
Billy Taylor
Karusell
7", EP
Swing Sessions 6 - 1946
Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Gene Sedric, Billy Taylor
Pathé
LP, Comp
The Jazz World Of Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
Radio TV Features, Addison, Goldstein, And Walsh
7", Promo
Voices Of Vista (Show #137, 138)
Buddy DeFranco & Glenn Miller Orchestra* / Billy Taylor
Not On Label
LP, Transcription
Great Jazz Artists Play Compositions Of Irving Berlin
Bill Evans, Charlie Byrd, Billy Taylor, Teri Thornton
Riverside Records
7", EP
Besame Mucho / Fiesta
Joe Holiday Sextet Featuring Billy Taylor
Prestige
Shellac, 10", Promo
Let's Not Waltz Tonight / How About You? / Indiana / Good Luck
Zoot Sims / Mundell Lowe / Billy Taylor / Lucky Thompson
Jazzbox, Jazzbox
7", EP, Blu
CHARLIE PARKER 10th Memorial Concert
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, C.C. Siegel, Billy Taylor, Tommy Potter, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Dave Lambert (4), Kenny Dorham
Tripp Records
LP, Album
That's All / I've Got The World On A String
Billy Taylor Trio*
Social Security Presents The Genius Of Duke A Tribute To Duke Ellington
Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, Mercer Ellington, Billy Taylor
Away In A Manger / The House Of Christmas - Stable Down The Road
David Frost, Billy Taylor
Live AT IAJE, New York
Billy Taylor Trio
2002
Soundpost Records (2)
CD, Album
Urban Griot
Billy Taylor Trio
2001
Soundpost (2)
CD, Album
Music Keeps Us Young
Billy Taylor Trio
1997
Arkadia Jazz
CD, Album
You Tempt Me
Billy Taylor Trio
1989
Taylor-Made Recordings
CD, Album
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Billy Taylor Trio
1968
Stay With Me
Billie Holiday
2024
Second Records
LP, Album, Ltd, Tur
Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944 - 1946
Don Byas
2023
Mosaic Records (2)
10xCD, Mono + Box, Comp, Ltd, Num
Variations
Keith Emerson
2023
Book Of Queens
Krasno Moore Project
2023
Temptation: The Exotic Sounds Of Chaino
Chaino Featuring Members Of The Francis Bay Orchestra*
2023
Plays Standards
Nautilus (25)
2022
Urban Discos
12", EP
The Story Of Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
2022
Vinyl Me, Please
LP, Album, RE, 180 + 2xLP, Album, 180 + LP, Album,
I Ain't Playin'
Diunna Greenleaf
2022
Little Village Foundation
CD, Album
Reconnection
Nautilus (25)
2022
Urban Discos
CD, Album
Blacksad
Various
2022
Citel Music, Dargaud, Blynd
6xLP, Comp, Ltd, Cof
Respect
Tap That Jazz*
2022
Frémeaux & Associés
CD, Album, Sli
Complete Recordings, Custom Taylored & Uptown
Billy Taylor Trio
2022
Fresh Sound Records
CD, Comp, RM
That's For Sure
Billy Taylor
Solace
Billy Taylor
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Billy Taylor
Introduction - Live
Billy Taylor
Introduction
Billy Taylor
Can You Tell By Looking At Me
Billy Taylor
Night and Day
Billy Taylor
Finesse
Billy Taylor
Deck The Halls
Billy Taylor
The Very Thought Of You
Billy Taylor
Wombie Zombie
Billy Taylor
Willow Weep For Me
Billy Taylor
Blue Moon
Billy Taylor
One For Fun
Billy Taylor
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Billy Taylor
My One and Only Love
Billy Taylor
It Happens All The Time
Billy Taylor
You Make Me Feel So Young
Billy Taylor
What Is There To Say
Billy Taylor
If I Had You
Billy Taylor
