toured Europe with the CTI All Stars band. The first concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival was recorded and filmed for a CD/DVD/Blu-ray release, CTI All Stars At Montreux 2009, featuring Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Randy Brecker, John McLaughlin, George Duke, Mark Egan, and special guest Jamie Cullum. The album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder with cover art by Pete Turner. That same year, Taylor himself produced, for the first time, an extensive CTI reissue series on SHM-CD format, "The CTI + RVG" series, working for the last time with Van Gelder. In 2010, Taylor once again put together the CTI All Stars for another tour, this time with Bryan Lynch replacing Randy Brecker. A video was filmed at the Burghausen Festival and was broadcast on German TV. Awards Taylor won numerous Grammy Awards for his decades of production work. These include awards for: Focus (Stan Getz, 1961), "Desafinado" (Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd, 1962), Conversations with Myself (Bill Evans, 1963), "The Girl from Ipanema" (Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto, 1964), "Willow Weep for Me" (Wes Montgomery, 1969), and "First Light" (Freddie Hubbard, 1972). Death Taylor died on August 22, 2022, at the age of 93. Taylor had been visiting family in Winkelhaid, Germany, where he suffered a stroke on August 2. He was taken to hospital in nearby Nuremberg, where he died. References External links A Few Words About a Living Legend, Creed Taylor Biographical profile at dougpayne.com 4-part JazzWax interview with Creed Taylor 1929 births 2022 deaths American record producers People from Bedford, Virginia People from Lynchburg, Virginia Military personnel from Virginia Duke University alumni Record producers from Virginia Jazz record producers Grammy Award winners