Night Lights Classic Jazz

Posts tagged Billy Taylor

December 30, 2010

 

Billy Taylor

The Bridge: Billy Taylor, 1921-2010

As a performer, composer, educator, media host, and advocate, Billy Taylor built a boulevard of jazz for listeners around the world to travel.

May 22, 2008

 

Billy Taylor and Charles Mingus at Storyville

Billy TaylorPianist Billy Taylor’s website has posted audio of a half-hour set at Boston’s Storyville club in 1951, featuring Charles Mingus on bass and Marquis Foster on drums, with Nat Hentoff doing between-song stage announcements. The sound is crystal-clear by 1951 radio-broadcast standards, with…

About Night Lights

About The Host

Search Night Lights

where to hear night lights

This Week On Afterglow

Afterglow Plays Cole Porter

Cole Porter songbook

Johnny Hartman, Blossom Dearie, Dean Martin and others help us pay tribute to the Indiana songwriter.

Read more »

Afterglow is WFIU's weekly program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson.

More from Afterglow »