Billy Taylor: Eight Classic Albums: 1955-1962 (4 CDs)

This 4CD boxset features music from the golden era of this superb musician and composer's long musical career, comprising as it does eight original albums first released between the mid-1950s and the early-1960s. Serving as an ideal introduction to Taylor's music, as well as a first class collection of his best work, this set will delight all those who take the time to listen.




CD - a Touch of Taylor
Ever So Easy
Radioactivity
A Bientot
Long Tom
Day Dreaming
Live It Up
Purple Mood
Early Bird
Blue Clouds
It's a Grand Night for Swinging
Memories of Spring
Daddy-O

One for Fun - Original CD Title
Summertime
One for Fun
That's for Sure
A Little Southside Soul
Blue Moon
Makin' Whoopee
Poiniana
At Long Last Love
When Lights Are Low

Billy Taylor with Four Flutes - Original CD Title
The Song Is Ended
Back Home
St. Thomas
Oh Lady, Be Good
No Parking
Koolbongo
Blue Shutters
One for the Woofer
How About You?

Uptown - Original CD Title
La Petie Mambo
Jordu
Just the Thought of You
Soul Sisters
Moanin'
Warm Blue Stream
Biddy's Beat
Cu-Blu
S'wonderful
Warming Up!
Warming Up
Easy Like
That's Where It Is
Afterthoughts
Easy Walker
Lonesome Lover
Don't Bug Me
Coffee Break
Ya Know What I Mean
Native Dancer
Uncle Fuzzy
No Aftertaste

Interlude - Original CD Title
You Tempt Me
Did You Dream Too
You're All That Matters
Interlude
You're Mine
My Heart Sings
I Sigh
Here Today Gone Tomorrow Love
All Alone

Kwamina - Original CD Title
Something Big
I'm Seeing Rainbows
Ordinary People
The Cocoa Bean Song
What's Wrong with Me
Nothing More to Look Forward to
Another Time, Another Place
Happy Is the Cricket
Sun Is Beginning to Crow

Impromptu - Original CD Title
Capricious
Impromptu
Don't Go Down South
Muffle Guffle
Free & Oozy
Paraphrase
Empty Ballroom
At la Carousel