Warming Up!
1960 studio album by Billy Taylor
Warming Up! | ||||
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Studio album by Billy Taylor | ||||
Released | 1960 | |||
Recorded | March 26, 1960 New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Riverside RLP 12-339 | |||
Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
Billy Taylor chronology | ||||
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Warming Up! is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label.[1] The recordings were first released as Custom Taylored on a SESAC "electronic transcription" to promote SESAC-controlled material to radio stations and re-released as Easy Like on the Surrey label in 1966.[2][3]
Reception
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Billy Taylor except as indicated
- "Warming Up" - 2:29
- "Easy Like" (Teddy Castion, Taylor) - 2:36
- "That's Where It Is" - 2:45
- "Native Dancer" - 2:31
- "Coffee Break" - 3:05
- "Afterthoughts" - 2:51
- "Easy Walker" - 2:46
- "Lonesome Lover" - 2:29
- "Don't Bug Me" - 2:36
- "You Know What I Mean" - 3:04
- "Uncle Fuzzy" - 2:36
- "No Aftertaste" - 3:08
Personnel
- Billy Taylor – piano
- Henry Grimes – bass
- Ray Mosca – drums
References
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Billy Taylor
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- The Billy Taylor Touch (1951 & 1957)
- Billy Taylor Trio (1952 & 1953)
- Cross Section (1953 & 1954)
- The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido (1954)
- A Touch of Taylor (1955)
- My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (1957)
- The New Billy Taylor Trio (1957)
- Taylor Made Jazz (1957)
- One for Fun (1959)
- Billy Taylor with Four Flutes (1959)
- Warming Up! (1960)
- Interlude (1961)
- Kwamina (1961)
- Impromptu (1962)
- Sleeping Bee (1969)
- Urban Griot (2000)
- Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall (1954)
- Uptown (1960)
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (1967)