Listening last night to some used LPs I’d bought a while ago, I put on “The Billy Taylor Trio at the London House,” (ABC-Paramount, rec. 1956) for the first time, never having been much of a Taylor fan but aware, for one thing, that Denny Zeitlin was a great admirer of Taylor of that vintage. Pleasantly surprised by the quality, thoughtfulness, and lucidity of the music making (Earl May and Percy Brice on board), I was also impressed, even through the LP’s no longer perfect surfaces, at the quality of the piano sound, some of the nicest I’ve ever heard and recorded “live” too. Engineer was one Bill Putnam, producer Creed Taylor.
P.S. I see now that Bill Putnam was quite somebody, indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Putnam