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Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor

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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.

Known for

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man
Thelonious Monk: American Composer
Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin'

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