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  • ** FILE ** Jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor arrives for the Library Lions benefit at the New York Public Library in 2007. (AP Photo/Gary He, File)

    Billy Taylor, ardent jazz promoter, dies at 89

    Billy Taylor, an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer who became one of the genre's most ardent advocates through radio, television and the landmark Jazzmobile arts venture, has died at age 89.

  • FILE - In this Feb. 17, 1981 file photo, band leader Billy Taylor, center right, joins Mercer Ellington, left; dancer Judith Jamison, second left, and band leader Woody Herman at a special Broadway preview of "Sophisticated Ladies," in New York. Taylor, a jazz pianist and composer who became one of the music form's most ardent promoters through radio, television and the landmark Jazzmobile arts venture died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 in New York. He was 89. (AP Photo/Nancy Kaye, File)

    Billy Taylor, ardent jazz promoter, dies at 89

    Billy Taylor, an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer who became one of the genre's most ardent advocates through radio, television and the landmark Jazzmobile arts venture, has died at age 89.

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