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He made dozens of recordings in the 1950s and 1960s, notably the album with Cuban percussionist Candido Camero, entitled Billy Taylor Trio with Candido, My Fair Lady Loves Jazz, Cross SectionВ and Taylor Made Jazz. The tune is widely known in the UK as a piano instrumental version, used for BBC Television's long-running Film.В programme. Nina Simone covered the song in her 1967 album Silk & Soul. In 1952 Taylor composed one of his most famous tunes, 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free', which achieved more popularity with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, Taylor published his first book, a textbook about bebop piano styles. Taylor played at Birdland longer than any other pianist in the history of the club. Johnson, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. A year later, he became the house pianist at Birdland and performed with Charlie Parker, J.J. Taylor returned to New York later that year and cooperated with Bob Wyatt and Sylvia Syms at the Royal Roost jazz club and Billie Holiday in a successful show called Holiday on Broadway. After an eight-month tour with the Don Redman Orchestra in Europe, Taylor stayed there with his wife, Theodora, and worked in Paris and the Netherlands. Among the other musicians Taylor worked with was Machito and his mambo band, from whom he developed a love for Latin music. The same night he joined Webster's Quartet, he met Art Tatum, who became his mentor. Taylor moved to New York City after graduation and started playing piano professionally from 1944, first with Ben Webster's Quartet on New York's 52nd Street. Pianist Undine Smith Moore noticed young Taylor's talent in piano and he changed his major to music, graduating with a degree in music in 1942. During his time he joined Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He went to Virginia State College and majored in sociology. Taylor attended Dunbar High School, the U.S.'s first high school for African-American students.

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Taylor made his first professional appearance playing keyboard at the age of 13 and was paid one dollar. He was most successful at the piano, and had classical piano lessons with Henry Grant, who had educated Duke Ellington a generation earlier. He grew up in a musical family and learned to play different instruments as a child, including guitar, drums and saxophone. Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, but moved to Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz.' Biography Early life and career

Critic Leonard Feather once said, 'It is almost indisputable that Dr. Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.ДЄ jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. William TaylorВ (JвЂ“ December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator.

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