Billy Taylor (jazz bassist)
- Billy Taylor (jazz bassist)
William Taylor Sr. (April 3, 1906, Washington, D.C. - September 2, 1986, Fairfax, Virginia) was an American jazz bassist.
Taylor began playing tuba but later picked up bass alongside it. After moving to New York City in 1924, he played with Elmer Snowden (1925), Willie Gant and Arthur Gibbs (1926), Charlie Johnson (1927-29, 1932-33), Duke Ellington (1928), McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929-31), Fats Waller (1934), and Fletcher Henderson. From 1935 to 1940 he again played with Ellington, and it is for this association that he is best known; he often played with a second bassist in the orchestra, at times Hayes Alvis or Jimmy Blanton. During that time he also recorrded with Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges. In the 1940s he played with Coleman Hawkins (1940), Red Allen (1940-41), Joe Sullivan (1942), Raymond Scott (1942-43), Cootie Williams (1944), Barney Bigard (1944-45), Benny Morton (1945), and Cozy Cole (1945). Later in the decade he played freelance in New York before moving back to Washington, D.C. in 1949. He led his own ensemble for Keynote Records in 1944.
References
*Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz". Oxford, 1999, pp. 637-38.
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