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Impromptu (Billy Taylor album)

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Released
  
1962

Artist
  
Billy Taylor

Label
  
Mercury Records

Length
  
42:13

Release date
  
1962

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 8, 9 & 10, 1962 Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City

Impromptu (1962)
  
Right Here, Right Now (1963)

Billy Taylor albums
  
The Billy Taylor Trio with Can, Sleeping Bee, The Billy Taylor Touch, Billy Taylor with Four Flutes

Billy taylor impromptu


Impromptu is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Mercury label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Several of these songs have remained in his repertoire and have been recorded again in the decades that followed".

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Taylor

  1. "Capricious" - 2:20
  2. "Impromptu" - 9:35
  3. "Don't Go Down South" - 3:47
  4. "Muffle Guffle" - 4:48
  5. "Free and Oozy" - 6:27
  6. "Paraphrase" - 4:48
  7. "Empty Ballroom (Une Salle de Bal Vide)" - 4:20
  8. "At la Carousel" - 6:08

Personnel

  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Jim Hall - guitar
  • Bob Cranshaw - bass
  • Walter Perkins - drums

    • Songs

    1Capricious2:20
    2Impromptu9:35
    3Don't Go Down South3:47

    References

    Impromptu (Billy Taylor album) Wikipedia
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