Pianist, composer, teacher and lecturer, television and radio personality, recording artist and author...Billy Taylor is all of these. For more than six decades, Dr. Billy Taylor's enthusiastic and personal commitment to make jazz a part of the American mainstream have been rewarded by recognition and acclaim by his peers, critics, educators, students, enthusiastic listeners, and five US presidents. Billy Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina on July 24, 1921. Read more on Last.fm