It’s time for an annual reminder that while jazz critics were quick to label Creed’s productions “commercial”, he never produced a Christmas or holiday album in an era when holiday records were “king”. I have a great additional jazz holiday mix as well this year!
Happy Birthday Maestro Carter!
On Ron Carter’s 87th birthday, the author shared a recording from NPR’s “Jazz Night in America” and a Mixcloud link featuring an hour of Carter’s remarkable tracks. Also, a supplemental playlist is available.
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It’s that time of year
Time to re-up my holiday mix from a few years ago. It features a few tracks from the Jimmy Smith 1964 “Christmas Cookin’” album as well as tracks by Hank Crawford, Bill Evans, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, as well as Kenny Burrell. I’m working on completing a Bob James live post, as well as I’ll have something to remember […]
The CT Produced Holiday Mix
Jimmy Smith’s “Christmas Cookin’” album was released on December 10th, 1964[1]The Creed Taylor Christmas Album – Creed Taylor Produced (ctproduced.com) and back in 2020, I posted an entry with details of the Smith album, and a “fantasy” Creed Taylor Produced Christmas Album. I’ve reproduced the album links here, you can play it from Mixcloud or YouTube. If you want the […]
CTI On CD Only Volume-2
To complete this years “Creed Taylor Month” here is “CTI On CD Only Volume-2”. Volume-1 was included in this post. As with the first volume, this mix was compiled to demonstrate some of the great music Creed released after the supposed demise of CTI in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s, depending on where you read about it. The music […]
September is Creed Taylor Month
It’s with more than a hint of sadness that I’m continuing a tradition originally launched in 1968, Creed Taylor month. This year, in fact this week, marks the first time since the legendary producer Creed Taylor passed on to the great studio in the sky. I do plan to continue Creed Taylor month in future years. My prior Creed Taylor […]
The Street Sounds Mix
We didn’t arrive in New York City Until 1983, giving rise to the saying “I’m not from here, but I got here as quick as I could.” In 1983 New York was still grimy and worn down. Years of mismanagement and underfunding had left whole neighborhoods in a state of decay. For a short period, we had a company rented […]