Charlie Johnson, Chester Lanier, Fletcher Allen and guitarist Oscar Alemán also played in his quintet.
Taylor is remembered most of all by his sessions with Django Reinhardt, in which he recorded the jazz standards "Shine", "I'se Muggin'", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "After You've Gone", "Georgia on My Mind" and "Nagasaki".
[1] The year before, recordings for the label Oriole ("Blue Drag", "Viper's Dream") were made with his band, Freddy Taylor & His Swing Men from Harlem.
In Paris, he later took over the management of a club on Montmartre; he also appeared in Rotterdam with his own group.
In 1937 he directed an orchestra in the Coliseum, which included Louis Vola, Freddy Johnson and Noël Chiboust: In the 1940s, Taylor returned to the United States and appeared until the late 1960s.