Fifty years ago, music producer Creed Taylor founded Impulse! Records and brought jazz to a new generation of listeners. Ray Charles’ “Genius + Soul = Jazz”; John Coltrane’s “Africa/Brass”; Gil Evans’ ...
It was 50 years ago this year that ABC Records, having recent success with such pop acts as Paul Anka, Buddy Holly and others, decided to create a specialty label specifically designed for jazz music.
The headline news on this lavishly packaged, four-CD collection of the work of the Impulse! label's founding producer, Creed Taylor, is that it includes three previously unreleased tracks by John ...