In jazz parlance, the Billy Taylor trio cooks; its compelling rhythms move even the impassive.

This cohesive and dynamic unit has been entertaining at home and abroad while serving as a super sales instrument for jazz by providing a better understanding of American music.

Over the years, the Billy Taylor Trio has included:

Bassists
Charles Mingus, Earl May, Oscar Pettiford, Paul West, Chris White, Larry Ridley, Joe Benjamin, George Duvivier, Bob Cranshaw, Dave Williams, Buster Williams, Lisle Atkinson, Aaron Bell, Martin Rivera, Wilbur Bascomb, Victor Gaskin, Doug Watkins, Henry Grimes, Clyde Lombardi, John Levy and Chip Jackson.

Drummers
Jo Jones, Kenny Dennis, Grady Tate, Dave Bailey, Billy Cobham, Bobby Thomas, Candido, Grassella Oliphant, Harold White, Joe Harris, Leonard Gaskin, Charlie Smith, Denzil Best, Ed Thigpen, Percy Bryce, Freddie Waits, Harold White, Walter Perkins, Ray Mosca, Kenny Dennis, Frank Gant, Louis Hayes, Richie Pratt, Keith Copeland, Curtis Boyd, Steve Johns and Winard Harper. listings of TV and radio appearances, video, notable performances, a press kit for print AND for the web, quotes from critics

"Bam! A lesson in cooking lyricism. America's foremost jazz missionary strikes again...(He excludes a) rollicking pulse and earthy feeling...in musical performance." - Newsday

"His playing is subtle, virtuosic and at times elegant." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"One of those rare artists who is also a scholar of his art." - Los Angeles Daily News

"Taylor's melodic bebop provides awe and entertainment in equal measures."
The New Yorker

"One of Jazz's premiere pianists, educators and public figures."
JazzTimes

"Taylor is an engaging and stylish player, an easy-going crowd pleaser."
Village Voice

"The venerable pianist is as elegant a stylist as they come." -The New Yorker

"He articulates (Jazz) history with candor and verve. He deserves thanks, as well as applause. Billy Taylor is the model Jazz polymath."
Piano & Keyboard

"Taylor's playing is...a cheerful stewpot of overstuffed arpeggios, cascading glissandos, thickly rhythmic bass patterns and frantic be-bop runs."
The New York Post

"The most exciting pianist in the jazz world today and its most articulate spokesman."
Vogue

"The music and mind of Billy Taylor projects a maturity and wealth of ideas. To communicate with Taylor is to go beyond the limits that confine jazz and enter a world of history, mystery and sound."
Down Beat

"Taylor's chops are dazzling..."
Jazz & Blues Report

"Billy Taylor is, indeed, the jazz worlds urban griot, its historian, master musician, educator, story teller, sage and evangelical bearer of the good news alive and well in the music."
Hartford Courant