Billy Taylor

Born 24 July 1921 in Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Died 28 December 2010 (aged 89)

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.