Billy Taylor
Acting
July 24, 1921
Died at age 89
December 28, 2010
Date of Death
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
2 Credits
Biography
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.
