We didn’t arrive in New York City Until 1983, giving rise to the saying “I’m not from here, but I got here as quick as I could.” In 1983 New York was still grimy and worn down. Years of mismanagement […]
Let My People Go
I had hoped to have my longest running research project to date, on American Folk singer Leon Bibb, complete for MLK Day 2022. It wasn’t to be. There are only tenuous links, at best, between Creed and Leon Bibb. Researching […]
On This Day: Stay The Course
I have almost the entire CTI/KUDU catalog on a USB hard drive in the car. It’s almost time to replace those old lossy versions with the original CD copies I’ve bought, or the re-engineered, re-ripped versions I’ve worked on over […]
My Career, My Music, My Sidemen – ‘Bijou’ and Philly
I’ve written about Grover Washington Jr. numerous times[1]Grover Washington Jr. – Creed Taylor Produced (ctproduced.com), including on his born-day in 2020. In that article I pulled together various threads to document how Grover got his chance to record for and […]
Margo Guryan – More Than Sunday Mornin’
It was with some sadness that I read on Instagram that Margo Guryan had passed away. Margo Guryan Rosner, age 84, of Los Angeles, California passed away on Monday, November 8, 2021. Margo was born September 20, 1937. Margo Rosner […]
Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House- Live at Montreux
I’ve only been to the Montreux Jazz Festival the once in 2004. That was 30-years after Larry Coryell performed there for this recording, which is a 2021 Record Store Day Black Friday exclusive. “At Monteux” wasn’t produced by Creed Taylor, […]
Hubert Laws – Quiet, Confident, Accomplished
Happy Birthday Hubert Laws! – “You can always do better”. Like other key members of the 1970’s CTI ensemble, Hubert Laws has been interviewed both during his peak performing years and since. In this post I’ll celebrate Hubert’s birthday by […]
Am-Par, Electro-Voice and the Story Of Stereo
Just what was the first Am-Par stereo album? Does one of the compilations hold that record? Having established which Am-Par release compilation/sampler was the first record given away with a consumer magazine closed one door on Am-Par compilations, but opened […]
Vineland Dreams, NAC, Gavin and Back to the Start
If you listened to FM-radio the USA in late ’95, or the first half of ’96 there is a good chance you heard the last CD of original music released by CTI[1]i.e. not a compilation or a reissue. Otherwise there […]
Julien Lourau – Power of Soul – The Music of CTI
I do enjoy rediscovering the music and people from the Creed Taylor era. I’ve often mused that I’d like to be able to redit and remix a set of classic CTI tracks from the stems of original masters. Not the […]