Top jazz trios piano, bass, drums on vinyl?


Available on stereo LP would be preferred. Love Billy Taylor. Wish I had a chance to see him live. Are there any box sets of his works on LP? Who else?
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I also like the Red Garland Trio and I had a favorite record which included Philly Joe Jones on drum kit. His brush work on 'The Man I Love' was as good as it gets. Even though the band line ups are often jumbled around, I myself would go looking for earlier Paul Bley records and they're all recorded in stereo as far as I know. OK, I don' want to miss this Brahms cadenza.
Recordings on jazz labels from back in the day are often hit or miss. For example, I bought a mono first pressing of Ella Fitzgeralds 'Like Someone in Love' on Verve.. This record comes with an orchestral accompaniment on both sides A and B. Anyway, one side sounds fine but the other side is, well let's just say that it's not in sync. The reason for this is that recording and editing of the accompaniment were done first and separately from when Ella went into the studio and sang. When the engineers paired them up, the speed of the accompaniment was right on side A but a half step down or so in pitch on side B. It seems as though jazz labels were in a hurry to bring out new releases and slighted on quality but many had the financial resources classical labels did not so it doesn't add up. On the contrary, 'Ella Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook', another Verve release is fine, or close enough to believe that they all could have been in the recording studio together.
I'd look through the store record binds for Cecil Taylor recordings and as I had said earlier, Paul Bley (Keith Jarrett's biggest mentor) recordings. For myself, learning and discovering material is half the fun of buying records and both of the above mentioned pianist/composers have a mile long discography of recording projects both on vinyl and CD.