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Billy Taylor Jr. was the boy of bass participant Billy Taylor Sr., and was also a bass participant, though much less well noted. He was an associate of the home band on the Howard Movie theater in Washington, D.C., among the first main locations to feature dark entertainers, through the …

There are more than enough instrumentalists named Billy Taylor to supply respectable reinforcements for the stockade below attack, that one a reedman whose specialty was the reduced horns such as for example baritone and bass saxophone. He arrived of the Natural cotton Club picture in the ’20s and ’30s as …

Not to end up being confused using the famous pianist, this Billy Taylor (whose boy Billy Taylor, Jr. was also an excellent bassist) was best-known for his period with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra, straight preceding Jimmy Blanton. Taylor began playing tuba in 1919 and turned to bass by the first ’30s. …

It is a little ironic that Ellis Marsalis had to hold back for sons Wynton and Branford to get famous before he could record frequently, but Ellis finally received his long-overdue reputation. The daddy of six sons (including Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo, and Jason), Ellis Marsalis’ primary importance to jazz might …

Billy Taylor was this articulate spokesman for jazz, and his profiles in CBS’ Sunday Morning hours tv program (where he was a normal from 1981) were therefore successful at introducing jazz to a larger audience, that occasionally you can forget just what a talented pianist he was for more than …

Bobby Timmons became thus well-known for the gospel and funky blues clichés in his solos and compositions that his abilities like a Bud Powell-inspired bebop participant have been lengthy forgotten. After rising in the Philadelphia jazz picture, Timmons caused Kenny Dorham (1956), Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, as well as the …

Hard bop/post-bop pianist Eldar Djangirov has accomplished a thing that almost all jazz performers — pianists or elsewhere — won’t accomplish: he landed a agreement with a significant label (Sony Classical) when he still wasn’t older enough to vote. It isn’t uncommon for folks to learn to try out jazz …

The oldest from the Jones brothers, Hank Jones is a supreme accompanist and underrated soloist. He’s being among the most achieved sight visitors in jazz, and his versatility and sensitive design have held him extremely active cutting periods and employed in different groups and designs ranging from golf swing to …

A jazz journeyman having a taste for adventure, pianist Michael Wolff has explored improvisation in a number of milieus, which range from bop to pop-jazz to worldbeat during the period of his multi-decade year profession. We were young in California in the 1960s and ’70s, Wolff was subjected at a …

Pianist/keyboardist/manufacturer/arranger/songwriter Onaje Allan Gumbs (pronounced Oh-Nah-Jay) is among the music industry’s esteemed and talented music collaborators. Gumbs spent some time working almost three years with top skill within the musical areas of jazz, R&B/spirit, and pop to hone his significant skills. A incomplete list contains Woody Shaw, Nat Adderly, Norman …