Billy Taylor
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 4
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- July 24, 1921
- Died
- December 28, 2010
- Place of birth
- Greenville, North Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- Dr. Billy Taylor
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.
