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Pianist Billy Taylor|Jazz Ambassador and NPR Host No More-He was 89 years old
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Hi viewers/candidates/students here is Latest information Latest updates related with Pianist Billy Taylor|Jazz Ambassador and NPR Host No More-He was 89 years old. As per sources Pianist Billy Taylor expired on Tuesday night due to an heart attack. He was 89 years old. This news was shares with the world by his daughter Kim Taylor Thompson. Billy Taylor became one of the country’s foremost ambassadors for jazz music — including many years as an NPR host. He was also a well known educator. Pianist Billy Taylor|Jazz Ambassador and NPR Host No More-He was 89 years old. Born in 1921, Billy Taylor had been a professional musician for more than six decades. After graduating from Virginia State College, he moved to New York in 1944; there, his first big gig was in the band of saxophonist Ben Webster. He would end up playing with essentially all the greats of that era, and many of them since. As a recording artist, he’s best known as the leader of a trio, a format he maintained since the 1950s, and also as the composer of the song “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free.”

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