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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. A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he founded 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. Taylor was a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Taylor) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
Songs See All
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Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Music Keeps Us Young)
Billy Taylor
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Gimme a Pigfoot
Bessie Smith, Framkie Newton, Jack Feagarden, Chu Berry, Buck Washintong, Bobby Johnson, Billy Taylor, and Benny Goodman
Albums See All
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Music Caravan 2024
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Short Cuts from Music Keeps Us Young (Music Keeps Us Young) 2024
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Music Keeps Us Young 2022
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Taylor Made 2021
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Ten Fingers, One Voice 2021
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The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido 2021
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Billy Taylor Plays Billy Taylor 2019
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A Touch of Taylor 2015
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Sleeping Bee 2014
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At The London House 2011
Singles & EPs See All
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My Heart Stood Still (Piano Solo - Jazz Secrets) (Short Cuts - breakdown) EP • 2025
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My Heart Stood Still (Solo Piano - Jazz Secrets) Single • 2024
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Lover Come Back to Me (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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Ballade (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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Naima (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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One for the Woofer (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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Interlude (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
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Caravan (Radio Mix) Single • 2024
Videos See All
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07-08 First Year of College (Stony Brook University) UnpluggdEn • 8K views
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Billy Taylor - The Very Thought Of You Okmusix • 1.8K views
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Cannonball and Billy Taylor Play Bebop 9 min 52 sec • Jazz Video Guy
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (SATB Choir) - Arranged by Kirby Shaw Hal Leonard Choral • 14K views
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Billy Taylor Meets Les McCann - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Jazz Video Guy • 75K views
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Billy Taylor Jazz Video Guy • 703K views
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Billy Taylor Jazz Video Guy • 170K views
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I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free (Jazz Piano Cover) - with Sheet Music Walk That Bass • 21K views
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Traditional Jazz Playlist • YouTube Music
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Springtime Jazz Playlist • YouTube Music
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Mellow Jazz Playlist • YouTube Music
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Dinner Party Jazz Playlist • YouTube Music
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