NEW YORK (AP) — Creed Taylor, a prolific and innovative force in the evolution of jazz who worked with John Coltrane, Ray Charles and many others and a popularizer of Brazilian music who oversaw the ...

Creed Taylor, one of the most influential and prolific jazz producers of the second half of the last century, best known for the distinctive work he did for his CTI label in the 1970s, died Monday in ...

The Bethlehem Years Creed Taylor is best known for his CTI label of the 1970s, but he has been important in the jazz recording industry for quite some time. He played trumpet early on before becoming ...

The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most "sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, ...

For anyone who spent the Seventies in a penthouse or a yacht, wearing sunglasses the size of welders' goggles and smoking cigarettes so long they had to be lit from the next room, records on the CTI ...

He made scores of albums with artists who were well known and others who soon would be. He also founded two important record labels. By Neil Genzlinger Creed Taylor, one of the most influential and ...