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CTI Records: Coffee Table Jazz For The 1970's

James Maycock, Independent, The, December 1997

CREED TAYLOR was extremely shrewd at marketing jazz to those who were nervous of the genre, particularly after the discordant shreaks & squeaks made by John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp & others during the free jazz experiments of the late '60's.

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