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Billy Taylor

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Aliases
Billy Taylor and His Quartet
Billy Taylor and His Trio
Billy Taylor Trio
the Billy Taylor Trio
Dr. Billy Taylor
The New Billy Taylor Trio
Real name
William Edward Taylor, Jr.
Born
July 24, 1921
Died
December 28, 2010
Country
United States
IPI
00030287703 2 works
00030306733 6 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Jazz pianist, composer and educator
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Covers by Billy Taylor

Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1952 Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lee Bennett
March 1968 Agostinho dos Santos, Jack Jones
i   March 1955 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
i   1988 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i   2007 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i All the Things You Are Billy Taylor Trio 1956 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive 1958 William Gaxton & Bettina Hall
i 1952 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
  1955 Lena Horne and Avon Long PRF, Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt REC
i 1960 Clifton Webb
1955 Lee Wiley - Jess Stacy and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   1945 Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Reid REC,REL, June Knight PRF
i 1960 Shirley Ross
i 2007 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
i 1997 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
i 1970 George Martin and His Orchestra
i 2007 Billy Taylor
i 1997 Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters
March 1968 Henry Mancini and His Orchestra with Chorus
  1955 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sy Oliver REC, Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas PRF
i   2007 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra PRF, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra REL
i October 1989 The Horace Silver Quintet
i 1993 Ray Bryant Trio
i   2007 Benny Goodman and His Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Mildred Bailey REC, Maxine Sullivan, Louis Armstrong, Bill Bailey, The Dandridge Sisters, The Rhythmettes and The Deep River Boys PRF, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Anita Boyer REL
listen on Internet Archive   1958 Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REC, Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REL
i   April 1965 Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus REL, [Unknown Studio Artists] BRD
i 1993 (unknown)
i October 1989 The Modern Jazz Quartet
i 1977 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters
Economics Alan Jay Lerner feat. Billy Taylor 1955 Unverified
  January 20, 1966 Benny Goodman Sextet REL,REC
i   1957 Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan REC,REL, Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan and Cast PRF
i   1952 John Payne BRD, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Betty Barclay REL
i 1988 (unknown)
i 1954 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Lucienne Boyer, Lud Gluskin and His Continental Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Clark
i Hard to Find Billy Taylor 1967 Unverified
i 1954 Eddie Davis acc. by Bill Doggett
i   March 1955 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra featuring Jerry Cooper
i   1957 Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans REC,REL, Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans and Cast PRF
  1955 Woody Herman and His Orchestra REC, Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra REL
i   1988 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louise Tobin REC,REL
i 1952 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
i   1954 Mills Brothers REL, Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers REC
  2006 Dick Todd with Orchestra REC,REL, Tamara PRF
i   March 1955 Woody Herman and His Orchestra REC, Dick Foran BRD
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Harry James and His Orchestra
January 20, 1966 The Dave Bailey Quintet, Mel Tormé
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Fats Waller and His Buddies - Vocal Refrain by Orlando Roberson, Chester Gaylord "The Whispering Serenader"
i October 1989 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Al Hibbler
i 1998 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i 2007 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Al Jolson
i 1955 (unknown)
i 1954 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Jean Eldridge
  March 1968 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
i   1957 Rex Harrison REL,PRF
March 1968 Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young
January 20, 1966 Billy Taylor Trio
Covered by (66 artists)
i 1998 The Clifford Brown Ensemble
i   2007 Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) REC, Lawrence Gray BRD
i 1998 Alfred Newman
i 2007 Alfred Newman
i Laurentide Waltz Billy Taylor 1993 Unverified
i 1953 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Connie Haines, Frank Sintra & The Pied Pipers
i 2007 Gerry Mulligan Quartet
i   April 1965 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend PRF, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by The Three Waring Girls REC
  1956 Kathryn Crawford, June Shafer, Ida Pearson and Stella Friend PRF, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by The Three Waring Girls REC
  1955 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
i   1997 Evelyn Herbert PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet REC
Love Song Alan Jay Lerner feat. Billy Taylor 1955 Unverified
i 1954 George Shearing Quintet
i   1993 King Cole and His Trio - Orch. cond. by Pete Rugolo REL, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra REC
i   1960 Eddie Cantor REC,REL,PRF
i 1956 Bobby Woodlen's Harlem Mambos
March 1968 Victor Salon Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret), (unknown)
i 1953 Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra
i April 1965 Oliver Nelson [US]
i 1997 John Coltrane
i 1954 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Vocal by Margaret Whiting
i   1988 Helen Morgan REC,REL, Mayo Methot PRF
i June 1968 Clare Fischer
listen on Internet Archive i   1950 Jessie Matthews PRF, Ambrose and His Mayfair Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive   1958 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
listen on Internet Archive i December 1954 Vic Damone and Music by Camarata
i April 1965 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Jack Denny & His Orchestra
i   1954 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Johnny Morris REC
i October 1989 The Oscar Peterson Trio
i   1998 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
i 1988 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i   1957 John Michael King REL,PRF
i June 1968 Bud Shank & Clare Fischer
  March 1968 Barbra Streisand - Arr. & Cond. by Peter Matz REC,REL, Barbra Streisand PRF
i 1960 (unknown), David Rose and His Orchestra
Progress Alan Jay Lerner feat. Billy Taylor 1955 Unverified
i October 1989 Denny Zeitlin
i 1993 Gerry Mulligan
i March 1958 Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
i   1957 Julie Andrews, John Michael King REC, Julie Andrews and John Michael King PRF
i   1952 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
listen on Internet Archive 1945 Prince's Band
i 2007 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
i   1960 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i June 1968 Mieko Hirota - Billy Taylor Trio
i March 1955 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1958 Janet Brace with Orchestra directed by Jack Pleis
i   1998 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
  1955 Ethel Merman - Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and Chorus REL, Ethel Merman PRF
i   March 1958 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Di Vito REC, Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REL
i   1957 Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Robert Coote REC,REL, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Robert Coote PRF
i   March 1958 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Maxine Grey REC, Doris Carson & Ray Bolger PRF
March 1968 Frank Sinatra – Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra
i March 1958 John Payne & Joan Merrill
March 1968 Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown, Jr.
i   1952 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive   1958 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
  1955 Mary Eaton & Oscar Shaw PRF, Nat Shilkret and The Victor Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James REC,REL
i April 1965 Nat "King" Cole - With Orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins
i   1952 Broadway Nitelites - Vocal Chorus by Franklyn Baur REC,REL, William Gaxton & Constance Carpenter PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   February 1953 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The Rhythm Boys BRD,REC
i June 1968 Jimmy Smith [US] - Arr. & Cond. by Oliver Nelson
listen on Internet Archive   1958 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenny Sargent REC, Ross Alexander [dubbed by James Newill] & Wini Shaw BRD
i 1997 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
i October 1989 Bill Evans [US1]
i 1952 Jane Froman & Everett Marshall
March 1968 Tony Martin [US1]
i 1960 Benny Carter and His Swing Quartet featuring Elisabeth Welch
listen on Internet Archive i December 1954 Gene Krupa & His Orchestra
i   1993 Norman Wisdom PRF, Shirley Bassey with Accompaniment directed by Johnnie Spence REL
i 1952 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
i March 1958 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Connie Haines
i 1957 Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth and Rod McLennan
i   1957 Julie Andrews REL, Julie Andrews and Cast PRF
i 1952 Bing Crosby
i   1988 Fay Templeton PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL
April 1965 Ray McKinley and Some of The Boys
i 1961 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (Chorus by Carmen Lombardo)

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
A Touch of Taylor The Billy Taylor Trio 1955 Prestige [US]
A Woman in Love Barbara Lea with Billy Taylor and His Trio and Johnny Windhurst 1955 Riverside [US]
Billy Taylor Billy Taylor 1952 Atlantic
Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan Live at MCG Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan 2007 MCG Jazz
Billy Taylor Plays for D.J's. Billy Taylor Trio 1954 Prestige [US]
Concert at Town Hall Billy Taylor Trio March 1955 Prestige [US]
Dr. T Billy Taylor 1993 GRP Records
Impromptu Billy Taylor 1962 Mercury
Interlude Billy Taylor 1961 Prestige Moodsville
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Billy Taylor and His Trio June 1968 Tower [US2]
Jazz Alive Billy Taylor 1977 Monmouth Evergreen
Love Songs Earl Coleman featuring Billy Taylor March 1968 Atlantic
Lyrics by Lerner Alan Jay Lerner feat. Kaye Ballard and Billy Taylor 1955 Heritage [1]
Midnight Piano Billy Taylor April 1965 Capitol Records
Miko in New York Mieko Hirota - Billy Taylor Trio January 20, 1966 Nippon Columbia
Music Keeps Us Young Billy Taylor Trio 1997 Arkadia Jazz
My Fair Lady Loves Jazz The Billy Taylor Trio with Orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones 1957 ABC-Paramount
OK Billy! Billy Taylor 1970 Bell
One for Fun Billy Taylor 1960 Atlantic
Right Here, Right Now! Billy Taylor Trio February 1964 Capitol Records
Solo Billy Taylor 1988 Taylor-Made Recordings
Ten Fingers – One Voice Billy Taylor 1998 Arkadia Jazz
The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido Billy Taylor Trio with Candido 1956 Prestige [US]
The New Billy Taylor Trio The New Billy Taylor Trio March 1958 ABC-Paramount
'Til Morning Johnnie Ray with the Billy Taylor Trio 1958 Columbia [US]
Warming Up! The Billy Taylor Trio 1960 Riverside [US]
We Meet Again Ramsey Lewis/Billy Taylor October 1989 Columbia [US]

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