Released 1959 Producer Dave Usher Label Hallmark Records | Recorded November 1959Chicago Release date 1959 | |
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Taylor Made Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring tracks recorded in 1959 and released on the Argo label. The album features the many alumni of Duke Ellington's orchestra performing arrangements by Johnny Pate
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Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "though this isn't one of those small Ellingtonian unit sessions, it's just about the next best thing. Having assembled several members of Duke's band and written eight definitely Duke-influenced tunes, pianist/composer Billy Taylor's Taylor Made Jazz would probably have been marketed as a "tribute album" if it had been released recently".
Track listing
All compositions by Billy Taylor
- "Biddy's Beat"
- "Theodora"
- "Mood for Mendes"
- "Daddy-O"
- "Cu-Blu"
- "Day Dreaming"
- "Can You Tell by Looking at Me"
- "Tune Up!"
Personnel
Songs
1Biddy's Beat (feat Earl May - Paul Gonsalves - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Willie Cook - Britt Woodman - Ed Thigpen - Clark Terry & Harry Carney)Clark Terry - Paul Gonsalves - Ed Thigpen - 5:06
2Theodora (feat Earl May - Paul Gonsalves - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Willie Cook - Britt Woodman - Ed Thigpen - Clark Terry & Harry Carney)Clark Terry - Paul Gonsalves - Ed Thigpen - 3:21
3Mood For Mendes (feat Earl May - Paul Gonsalves - Richard "Rabbit" Brown - Willie Cook - Britt Woodman - Ed Thigpen - Clark Terry & Harry Carney)Clark Terry - Paul Gonsalves - Ed Thigpen - 3:12