Titan of jazz who wrote BBC 'Film' theme dies

To generations of British television viewers, Billy Taylor, who has died at the age of 89, will be known as the pianist who composed the theme to the BBC's film review show hosted by Barry Norman and then Jonathan Ross. But the American was also a prominent civil rights campaigner and a bona fide titan of jazz, who played alongside the likes of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

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