Celebrating the good and bad of jazz producer Creed Taylor

This year two record labels created by veteran jazz producer Creed Taylor, 82, are celebrating significant anniversaries. In this case "anniversary" is kind of a misnomer, since neither Impulse nor CTI is an active concern, but parts of their old catalogs have been in print for decades, especially in the case of the former, which issued a crucially important chunk of work cut by saxophonist John Coltrane during the final six years of his life.?

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