Billy Taylor (jazz bassist)
William Taylor Sr. (April 3, 1906 – September 2, 1986) was an American jazz bassist. He was born Washington, D.C., and died in Fairfax, Virginia.
Taylor began playing
Jimmie Blanton. During that time, he also recorded with Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges. In the 1940s, he played with Coleman Hawkins (1940), Red Allen (1940–41), Joe Sullivan (1942), Raymond Scott (1942–43), Cootie Williams (1944), Barney Bigard (1944–45), Benny Morton (1945), and Cozy Cole (1945). Later in the decade he played freelance in New York before moving back to Washington, D.C., in 1949. He led his own ensemble for Keynote Records
in 1944.
Discography
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As leader
- Billy Taylor's Big Eight (4 sides, Keynote, 1944) – with Harry Carney and Johnny Hodges
As sideman
With Al Hibbler
- After the Lights Go Down Low (Atlantic, 1957)
With Duke Ellington
- "Caravan" (Variety VA-515-1, 1936)
References
- Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford, 1999, pp. 637–38.
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