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.

Known For

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

as Self

Thelonious Monk: American Composer

as Himself