Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor

p, 1921-2010 US, North Carolina
Musician / Composer of Jazz
A.k.a. William Edward Taylor, Jr.

William "Billy" Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) 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.Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz."

Instruments

Piano
Vocals

Genres

Jazz
Pop
Latin

Popular Tracks

Solace on Separate Keyboards by Erroll Garner & Billy Taylor

Can You Tell by Looking at Me on The Billy Taylor Touch by Billy Taylor

Night And Day on Separate Keyboards by Erroll Garner & Billy Taylor

My Heart Stood Still - Solo Piano - Jazz Secrets on My Heart Stood Still by Arkadia Jazz All-Stars & Billy Taylor

Lover Come Back To Me - Short Cut - theme on Short Cuts from Music Keeps Us Young by Arkadia Short Cuts & Billy Taylor

Goodbye Paris on Musicale Du Jour by Emmett Berry & Billy Taylor

Ballade - Short Cut - theme on Short Cuts from Music Keeps Us Young by Arkadia Short Cuts & Billy Taylor

Lover Come Back to Me - Radio Mix on Music Caravan by Billy Taylor

Ballade - Radio Mix on Music Caravan by Billy Taylor

Gimme a Pigfoot on Smith, Bessie: I'Ve Got What It Takes by Bessie Smith

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Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Four Classic Albums	Billy Taylor	2016	Compil.
Live at MCG	Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan	2007	Album
Taylor Made At The Kennedy Center	Billy Taylor	2005	Album
1952-1953	Billy Taylor	2005	Compil.
1950-1952	Billy Taylor	2004	Compil.
Billy Taylor With Four Flutes	Billy Taylor	2000	Single
1945-1949	Billy Taylor	2000	Compil.
Jazz at the Kennedy Center Series Sampler	Billy Taylor, Grover Washington, Jr.	1999	Album
The Billy Taylor Touch / One For Fun	Billy Taylor	1999	Compil.
Ten Fingers - One Voice	Billy Taylor	1998	Album
Lyrics By Lerner - Alan Jay Lerner Performs His Own Songs	Al Lerner Featuring Kaye Ballard And Billy Taylor	1998	Album
Homage	Billy Taylor	1995	Album
Billy Taylor Trio	Billy Taylor	1995	Album
It's A Matter Of Pride	Billy Taylor	1994	Album
It's A Matter Of Pride	Billy Taylor	1994	Album
Dr. T	Billy Taylor Featuring Gerry Mulligan	1993	Album
Separate Keyboards	Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor	1991	Album
We Meet Again	Ramsey Lewis / Billy Taylor	1989	Album
The Jazzmobile Allstars	Billy Taylor	1989	Album
Solo	Billy Taylor	1988	Album
Lyrics By Lerner	Kaye Ballard, Billy Taylor, Al Lerner	1983	Album
Live At Storyville	Billy Taylor	1980	Album
Juicy Lucy	Sal Salvador Quartet Featuring Billy Taylor	1979	Album
Live At Storyville	Billy Taylor	1979	Album
Echoes Of An Era The Erroll Garner - Billy Taylor Years	Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor	1976	Compil.
Skitch & Company - Program No. 161-164	Buddy Greco, Billy Taylor	1974	Album
Break-A-Way / Dirty Ole Man	Billy Taylor	1970	Single
From David Frost And Billy Taylor - Merry Christmas	David Frost, Billy Taylor	1970	Album
Up-Tempo Taylor	Billy Taylor	1969	Album
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Billy Taylor	1968	Album
Midnight Piano	Billy Taylor	1964	Album
Right Here, Right Now!	Billy Taylor	1963	Album
Impromptu	Billy Taylor	1962	Album
Interlude	Billy Taylor	1961	Album
Uptown	Billy Taylor	1960	Album
Back Home	Billy Taylor	1960	Single
Billy Taylor With Four Flutes	Billy Taylor	1959	Album
Koolbongo / The Song Is Ended	Billy Taylor With Four Flutes	1959	Single
Taylor Made Jazz	Billy Taylor	1959	Album
One For Fun	Billy Taylor	1959	Album
The Billy Taylor Touch	Billy Taylor	1958	Compil.
Creed Taylor Presenta "Know Your Jazz N. 1"	Billy Taylor - Oscar Pettiford - Kenny Clarke - Joe Roland	1956	Single
Cross Section	Billy Taylor	1956	Album
At The London House	Billy Taylor	1956	Album
Back To Back	Erroll Garner, Billy Taylor	1955	Compil.
Mambos	Billy Taylor	1953	Single
Billy Taylor at the piano vol.2	Billy Taylor	1953	Single
Oscar Rides Again / Three Little Words	Oscar Pettiford / Billy Taylor	1952	Album
Billy Taylor At The Piano	Billy Taylor	1952	Single
Cuban Nightingale (Sun Sun Babae) / Makin' Whoopee	Billy Taylor	1952	Album
Billy Taylor	Billy Taylor	1951	Album
The Very Thought Of You / Stridin' Down The Champs-Elysées	Billy Taylor	1947	Album
Strictly Drums / Why Regret	Cozy Cole And His Quintette / Cozy Cole, Don Byas, Tiny Grimes, Billy Taylor, Billy Taylor Sr.	1945	Album
Candido / Mambo Azul	Billy Taylor		Album
Swing Sessions 6 - 1946	Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Gene Sedric, Billy Taylor		Compil.
...Sweet N' Swing	Milt Buckner, Billy Taylor		Compil.
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 55	Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Billy Taylor, Attila Zoller		Compil.
Let's Not Waltz Tonight / How About You? / Indiana / Good Luck	Zoot Sims / Mundell Lowe / Billy Taylor / Lucky Thompson		Single
Jazz Alive	Billy Taylor		Album
The Art Tatum - Erroll Garner - Bud Powell - Billy Taylor Years	Art Tatum - Erroll Garner - Bud Powell - Billy Taylor		Compil.
Billy Taylor At The London House	Billy Taylor		Single
Now's The Time / Night Wind	Cozy Cole And Don Byas, Tiny Grimes, Billy Taylor, Billy Taylor Sr.		Album
Out Of Nowhere / Three Little Words	Mary Lou Williams And Her Orchestra / Billy Taylor		Album
I've Got The World On A String/That's All	Billy Taylor		Single
David Frost Presents OK Billy	Billy Taylor		Album
Away In A Manger / The House Of Christmas - Stable Down The Road	David Frost & Billy Taylor		Single

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Acknowledgements

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