Billy Taylor

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Billy Taylor

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.

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Place of Birth

Acting24 July 1921 (age 103)Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Filmography

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