Billy Taylor Trio, Quincy Jones – My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (VG/VG) – LP, US 1965

My Fair Lady Loves Jazz is an LP by Quincy Jones, Billy Taylor Trio from 1965 released on the Impulse! label.

About this album

Billy Taylor Trio turns My Fair Lady into elegant, hard-swinging cool jazz, reimagining Lerner and Loewe’s theatre hits with wit and clarity. Released in 1957, the album caught the musical at its cultural peak and translated its best-known songs into a refined small-group setting, where Taylor’s poised piano leads the way with supple support from bass and drums. Rather than treating the score as novelty material, the trio finds real harmonic depth and swing in numbers such as “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live”, making the record a notable example of jazz musicians reshaping Broadway repertoire for the modern era.

Genre: Jazz