Within three short years after joining Verve Records in 1961, Creed Taylor produced a series of albums that altered the direction of jazz recordings in the 1960s. These included Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto; Jimmy Smith's Bashin', featuring Walk on the Wild Side; Kai Winding's More; and Bill Evans' Conversations With Myself. Each LP was a case study of how…
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