Billy Taylor Transcriptions

Birth name: Billy Taylor or William Taylor
Born: July 24, 1921 Greenville, North Carolina, US
Died: December 28, 2010 (aged 89) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
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.