The Billy Taylor Touch
''The Billy Taylor Touch'' is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor released in 1958 on the Atlantic Records, 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.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 Reception Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars.Allmusic listing
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Track listing

''All compositions by Billy Taylor except as indicated'' # "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) - 2:58 # "Earl May" - 4:50 # "Can You Tell by Looking at Me" - 4:24 # "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 4:14 # "Wra ...
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Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he founded in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. Taylor was a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." Biography Early life and career Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, Unit ...
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