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History of Jazz Sami Çatak
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A brief history of jazz by Dr. William “Billy” Taylor.
Listen to his definition of what he considered Jazz to be.
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History of Jazz - Part 4
Great Billie Taylor explains the origin of jazz in the United States.
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.
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." -
History of Jazz - Part 3
Great Billie Taylor explains the origin of jazz in the United States.
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.
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." -
History of Jazz - Part 2
Great Billie Taylor explains the origin of jazz in the United States.
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.
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." -
History of Jazz - Part 1
Great Billie Taylor explains the origin of jazz in the United States.
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.
A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he started in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.
Taylor was also a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz."
Customer Reviews
Billy Taylor - DJ
I taught History of Jazz classes for almost fifty years in several major universities (UNC, UM, NMSU, UNC-C
and CPCC). My father played sax in a 1920’s Combo (The Boll Weevils in North Carolina).
The person who really got me interested in jazz was Pianist/DJ Billy Taylor- whose evening shows on WNEW kept me entranced through my high school years on Long Island.
His laid-back delivery and choice of jazz artists intrigued this young trumpet player, and I eventually led a
high school dance band (The Stardusters) that enabled me to bring improvisation into my repertoire.
I heard Billy Taylor live twice in NYC in the late 50s.m, and was blown away with his awesome ability. I was also influenced by pianist Marion McPartland who dj’d a weekend radio show, and mc’d a wonderful historic group of pianists at Lincoln Center in the 70s, including Eubie Blake through
Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Herbie Hitchcock.
I was very fortunate to have had easy access to both Taylor and McPartland
whose informed grasps of jazz history
laid the groundwork for the History of Jazz classes I brought to thousands of university students from 1968-2014. (I should also mention Mark Gridley, whose Jazz History texts I employed over the years.)
Dr. John Harding