Billy Taylor and Dizzy Gillespie. For a Jazz mobile Concert in Harlem, New York, 1966

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Billy Taylor and Dizzy Gillespie at a Jazz mobile Concert in Harlem, New York, 1966.

Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. A jazz activist, Taylor sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America, an organisation he founded in 1989, with Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs, to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians who survived Hurricane Katrina.

b. July 24, 1921 in Greenville, North Carolina.
d. December 28, 2010 in Manhattan, New York.

Dizzy Gillespie (by name John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up being similar to those of Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time.

b. October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina.
d. January 6, 1993 in Englewood New Jersey.

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