Today is Creed Taylor's birthday. He's 92. The fabled producer had a significant influence over the direction of recorded jazz from the mid-1950s on. His first job was at Bethlehem Records in New York in the summer of 1954, attracting talent and overseeing the recording of jazz singers and instrumentalists on the East Coast. Creed's vision was to get Be…
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