The Billy Taylor Touch

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The Billy Taylor Touch
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Studio album by
Billy Taylor
Released1958
RecordedFebruary 20, 1951 and October 28, 1957
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length38:13
Label Atlantic
1277
Producer Herb Abramson, Nesuhi Ertegun
Billy Taylor chronology
My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
(1957)		The Billy Taylor Touch
(1958)		 The New Billy Taylor Trio
(1957)
Piano Panorama cover
Piano Panorama.jpg

The Billy Taylor Touch is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor released in 1958 on the Atlantic label and featuring seven tracks recorded in 1951 that were originally released on a 10-inch LP as Atlantic's Piano Panorama series along with four more tracks recorded in 1957. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Taylor except as indicated

  1. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) - 2:58
  2. "Earl May" - 4:50
  3. "Can You Tell by Looking at Me" - 4:24
  4. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 4:14
  5. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) - 2:46
  6. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 3:31
  7. "Good Groove" - 3:04
  8. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) - 3:03
  9. "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:14
  10. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 3:24
  11. "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) - 2:45

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Atlantic Records Catalog: 1200 series accessed September 10, 2015
  2. ↑ Edwards, D., Wu, R., Eyries, P., Callahan, M. and Watts, R. Atlantic Album Discography Part 1: 100 & 400 Series (1949-1954) accessed September 10, 2015
  3. 1 2 Allmusic listing accessed September 10, 2015
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