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Urban Griot

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Released
  
2001

Release date
  
2001

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Billy Taylor

Producer
  
Billy Taylor

Recorded
  
November 13 and December 9, 2000Manhattan Center Studios, NY

Label
  
Soundpost RecordsSP3050-2

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

Urban Griot is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring tracks recorded in 2000 and released on the Soundpost label.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Taylor.

  1. "Local Color / Can You Dig It?"—4:25
  2. "Reclamation"—5:49
  3. "Gracias Chucho"—2:54
  4. "Etude"—4:06
  5. "Conversion"—4:44
  6. "Spoken"—1:38
  7. "In Loving Memory"—6:13
  8. "Like a Heartbeat"—4:16
  9. "Invention / Looking for Another Theme"—5:35
  10. "Transformation"—8:30
  11. "A Duke-ish Blues"—5:52

Personnel

  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Chip Jackson - double bass
  • Winard Harper - drums

    • References

    Urban Griot Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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