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Billy Taylor Trio, Quincy Jones – My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (VG/VG) – LP, US 1965
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My Fair Lady Loves Jazz is an LP by Quincy Jones, Billy Taylor Trio from 1965 released on the Impulse! label.
About this album
Billy Taylor Trio turns My Fair Lady into elegant, hard-swinging cool jazz, reimagining Lerner and Loewe’s theatre hits with wit and clarity. Released in 1957, the album caught the musical at its cultural peak and translated its best-known songs into a refined small-group setting, where Taylor’s poised piano leads the way with supple support from bass and drums. Rather than treating the score as novelty material, the trio finds real harmonic depth and swing in numbers such as “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live”, making the record a notable example of jazz musicians reshaping Broadway repertoire for the modern era.
Genre: Jazz
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Artist: Quincy Jones, Billy Taylor TrioLabel: Impulse! – AS-72Format: LP, Album, Reissue, StereoUnits: 1Country: USReleased: 1965Genre: JazzStyle: Cool Jazz, Easy Listening
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A1 Show Me
A2 I´Ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face
A3 With A Little Bit Of Luck
A4 The Rain In Spain
B1 Get Me To The Church On Time
B2 Wouldn'T It Be Loverly?
B3 I Could Have Danced All Night
B4 On The Street Where You Live