Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor, the famous jazz pianist and educator, television success enjoyed on the large, has died. He was 89th
Taylor died Tuesday of a heart attack in New York, her daughter, Kim Taylor-Thompson, told the New York Times.
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A television's long-standing opposition to many of his contemporaries, Taylor as a cultural correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and was the first African-American group to do a talk show where he has been a performance leader agency for 1969 to David Frost, 72nd
He first made his mark on television in 1958 as music director of NBC's theme is jazz, the first television series, covering jazz.
North Carolina and raised in Washington, DC, Taylor received a Ph.D. in music education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and dear doctor named Taylor.
He began his career playing with the Quartet Ben Webster in 1943 in New York three equalities, where he conducted years later. He formed his own trio in 1951 and began classes in jazz schools.
A year after the subject is Jazz was launched, Taylor was engaged for decades as a DJ at WLIB, according to the radio station Harlem before moving on NPR, where he worked for more than two. There, he hosted Jazz Alive and Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center.
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Taylor has also taught jazz at the University of Iceland long, the Manhattan School of Music and other institutions. In his compositions of over 300 was the gospel on "I Wish I Knew How it feels to be free," the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
A recipient of over 20 honorary doctorates, Taylor has also won two Peabody, an Emmy for his work on Sunday morning, a Grammy and was voted into the Hall of Fame Education for the International Association for Jazz.
In addition to his surviving daughter, Taylor, his wife Theodora. His son died of Duane, 1988.
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