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“Bam! A lesson in cooking lyricism. America’s foremost jazz missionary strikes again…(He excludes a) rollicking pulse and earthy feeling…in musical performance.” - Newsday “His playing is subtle, virtuosic and at times elegant.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution “One of those rare artists who is also a scholar of his art.” - Los Angeles Daily News “Taylor’s melodic bebop provides awe and entertainment
in equal measures.” “One of Jazz’s premiere pianists, educators and public
figures.” “Taylor is an engaging and stylish player, an easy-going
crowd pleaser.” “The venerable pianist is as elegant a stylist as they come.” -The New Yorker “He articulates (Jazz) history with candor and verve. He
deserves thanks, as well as applause. Billy Taylor is the model
Jazz polymath.” “Taylor’s playing is…a cheerful stewpot of overstuffed
arpeggios, cascading glissandos, thickly rhythmic bass patterns
and frantic be-bop runs.” “The most exciting pianist in the jazz world today and its
most articulate spokesman.” “The music and mind of Billy Taylor projects a maturity and
wealth of ideas. To communicate with Taylor is to go beyond the
limits that confine jazz and enter a world of history, mystery and
sound.” “Taylor’s chops are dazzling…” “Billy Taylor is, indeed, the jazz worlds urban griot, its
historian, master musician, educator, story teller, sage and evangelical
bearer of the good news alive and well in the music.”
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