Creed Taylor

American producer and label manager Born: 13th May 1929 Lynchburg, Virginia, USA Died: 22nd Aug 2022 Winkelhaid, Bavaria, Germany Jazz producer and the founder of two legendary labels: Impulse! (as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount) and CTI Records (as a subsidiary of A&M Records), as well as CTI's subsidiaries Kudu, Salvation (4) and Three Brothers Records. He also founded Greene Street Records and several publishing companies, among them Char-Liz Music, Inc. and Three Brothers Music. Creed Taylor has been a huge influence in many producers such as Esmond Edwards, Tommy LiPuma, Dave Grusin, Arnaldo DeSouteiro and Dave Matthews (3). He started his career as a trumpet player influenced by Ernie Royal, and became a record producer when working in the '50s for Bethlehem Records and, later, ABC-Paramount. He was hired by ABC-Paramount in December 1955 to set up a jazz department for the label. Later on, he went on to produce jazz albums for Verve and in July 1967 joined A & M's New York operation. Taylor produced a number of albums credited to the The Creed Taylor Orchestra. This was in effect Kenyon Hopkins And His Orchestra, Kenyon Hopkins was under contract Capitol Records at the time. Taylor did not play on any of the albums. Note: For Writing credits they are 99.99% certain to be Chip Taylor. Please do not use Creed Taylor unless the release specifically says Creed Taylor.