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December 28, 2010 (89 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
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Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor is an American jazz pianist, composer, presenter and educator. He is the Robert L. Jones Excellence Professor of Music at the University of East Carolina in Greenville, and since 1994 has been the artistic director of jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC A music activist jazz, Taylor served on the Founding Honorary Board of the American Jazz Foundation, an organization he founded in 1989, along with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer, and Phoebe Jacobs, to save their homes and lives. Hurricane Katrina. Taylor is also a jazz educator, has taught at universities, served at tables, and has traveled the world as an ambassador for jazz. Critics Leonard Feather once said, "There is no denying that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's leading spokesperson for jazz."
Birth nameBilly Taylor
BornJuly 24, 1921, Greenville, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 28, 2010, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
GenresJazz, hard bop
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, educator, broadcaster
InstrumentsPiano
Years active1944–2010
Associated actsCharlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, Christian McBride, Nancy Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cyrus Chestnut

About Billy Taylor

Pianist Billy Taylor was born on July 24, 1921 in North Carolina, United States (He dies at the age of 89, on December 28, 2010).

Jazz guitarist and instructor who was once labeled"the world's foremost advocate for jazz".

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Billy Taylor before becoming famous

Billy Taylor was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1921 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

He began his studies at Virginia State College as a sociology student, but eventually switched to music.

Achievement of Billy Taylor

In 1989, he co-founded The Jazz Foundation with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer, and Phoebe Jacobs to assist aging jazz and blues musicians.

Billy Taylor's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He grew up in a musical home, where he learnt to play the guitar, drums, and saxophone.

Billy Taylor on Social Media

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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, his civil rights anthem, was used as the soundtrack for Rob Reine's 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi.

Billy Taylor Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Billy Taylor updated on March 10 2023.