downbeat magazine clipping reads "Respect Creed, Too! 50 years on and people still think it makes them “hip” to take shots at the first great commercial jazz music producer. (As Laurence Svirchev did in Chords & Discords June 2024.) Creed Taylor implicitly understood that great jazz musicians deserved to be heard and deserved to make money. When Creed started producing, selling 5,000 jazz records was un- heard of, much less tens of thousands. Randy Weston’s CTI album Blue Moses was Weston’s most successful in sales. It is con- sidered by many to be one of the best albums on CTI, which is saying something alongside Hubbard’s Red Clay, Stanley Turrentine’s Sug- ar and others. Weston himself acknowledged in his auto- biography (African Rhythms: The Autobiogra- phy of Randy Weston, Duke University Press) that Blue Moses was a miracle, saying, “If it wasn’t for Blue Moses, I never would have been able to pay all those musicians. It was truly a miracle.” "

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