Posted on 12/29/2010 4:37:25 PM PST by real saxophonist
Billy Taylor, Jazz Musician, Dies at 89
by Reuters | December 29, 2010 5:27 EST
Billy Taylor, a leading jazz musician and composer who introduced the genre to wider audiences as a TV broadcaster, teacher and booster of new talent, died Tuesday in New York of heart failure, age 89.
The Kennedy Center for the performing arts in Washington, D.C., where Taylor had been the artistic director for jazz since 1994, called him "a great statesman and ambassador for jazz throughout the world."
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Heaven receives another class act.
Isn’t the term “Jazz Musician” a bit of an oxymoron? lol
Doctor Billy Taylor, a talented musician and a great educator.
Amen. R. I. P. And the Angels Sing!
All the greats are going.
Sad.
We are left with the likes of Eminem.
RIP.
Very sad.
I Wish I Knew What It Was To Be Free has been used as the theme for the BBC’s weekly film review programme on TV in Britain for 40 years and is known to everyone in the country.
Isn’t the term “Jazz Musician” a bit of an oxymoron?
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Only to certain varieties of morons.
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