Billy Taylor obituary

Jazz pianist who became the music's most articulate and widely heard advocateCharles Seeger, father of the folk singer Pete Seeger, once told a revealing jazz story which he heard on a 1950s trip to a conference of musicologists. An eminent delegate confided to Seeger that he didn't hate jazz at all, in fact it was probably important and worthy of study – but he hated the tendency of the music's fans to treat their passion as if it were holy. Seeger suggested that maybe classical music adm...

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