Creed Taylor
Creed Taylor ( born May 13, 1929 in Lynchburg, Virginia ) is an American music producer and founder of the jazz label Impulse! and CTI.
Life and work
Taylor grew up in Virginia, in an area that was musically influenced mainly by the Bluegrass on. Contact us for more modern music he had through the radio.
" Since the transmitter was very strong, I got him in very loud and clear and I used to hear him in the morning until two or three clock, and then at 6 clock to get up to go to school. That was my indoctrination. "
After graduating from high school, he attended Duke University, where he made his degree in psychology. He then undertook for two years in the Marine Corps, during this time Taylor was also for one year in the Korean War in use.
The career of Taylor, who played the trumpet in the band The Dukes during his study time itself, began in 1954 at Bethlehem Records. There, Taylor worked with musicians like Chris Connor, Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, JJ Johnson and Kai Winding.
In 1956, he left the Bethlehem label in order henceforth to work for ABC - Paramount. One of his first productions in 1956 was the debut album by Quincy Jones This Is How I Feel About Jazz. During this time, Taylor also made some of my own recordings with The Creed Taylor Orchestra & Chorus. In 1960, Taylor commissioned by ABC - Paramount, which specializes in jazz sub- label Impulse!, For which he was in 1960 and 1961 John Coltrane undertake the album Africa / Brass produced with him. In addition, ABC - Paramount could win Rudy Van Gelder as a sound engineer and producer Bob Thiele than another. On A Love Supreme, the greatest success of Coltrane and Impulse!, In 1964, Taylor, who had Impulse! and ABC - Paramount in 1961 again left, but no part.
1961 joined Taylor as the successor to Norman Granz for Verve MGM subsidiary, its position at Impulse! took over Bob Thiele. Here Taylor coined by his recordings with Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd, João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim in particular the face of Bossa Nova Jazz, a blend of cool jazz and Brazilian rhythms, best-known recording is The Girl from Ipanema 1963 to call.
From 1967 to 1969 he was finally working for A & M Records, for which he, the sub label CTI ( Creed Taylor Inc.), founded in 1968. 1970 CTI was independent of A & M and consequently the sub-labels were Kudu (1971) and Salvation (1972 ) founded the distribution Took Motown. The CTI was marked from the recordings with Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr., Chet Baker, Yusef Lateef, Stanley Turrentine and others. In addition to the signature Taylor was also the Cover Photos by Pete Turner trademark of CTI, for the sound quality was the name Rudy Van Gelder. The greatest success was CTI recorded with the debut album by Eumir Deodato Prelude from 1972. However, Creed Taylor failed to establish the end of the 70 years trying its own distribution network, so that CTI went bankrupt. After the decline of CTI the rights to the recordings of Columbia ( CBS) were bought.
Taylor initially disappeared from the scene, to dare the early 90s a new start with CTI, however, with which he was unable to repeat the former successes. Under the name of CTI Jazz operates Taylor currently (as of 2007) an Internet catalog of his recordings.
Recordings (selection)
Awards
Especially during his time as head of Verve several productions of Taylor were awarded the American Music Awards Grammy. In the first place, of course, is to call the album Getz / Gilberto, which was in 1964 awarded a total of four times. Taylor was thus able to make as the first producer of both the " Album of the Year " and the " Record of the Year " ( The Girl from Ipanema ). In addition, Taylor's productions have been several times as " Best Jazz Album " category. Five shots were included in the " Grammy Hall of Fame".