Billy Taylor, the jazz pianist best known as a brilliant educator and as one of the most forceful and spirited advocates for his genre, died Tuesday in New York. The 89-year-old died of heart failure, his daughter told the New York Times. Taylor was born in 1921 in North Carolina and grew up in Washington. He arrived in New York in 1943 and quickly made a name for himself playing alongside the best, including Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Taylor was a rare personality who was equally good at talking about jazz as he was playing it, and began actively erasing the public impression of jazz musicians of the time as uneducated and ignorant.
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