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Billy Taylor

Acting•Born July 24, 1921•Died December 28, 2010 (age 89)•Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Biography

Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.