Billy Taylor, a leading jazz musician and composer who introduced the genre to wider audiences as a TV broadcaster, teacher and booster of new talent, died this week in New York of heart failure, aged 89.
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Jazz champion billy Taylor dies at 89
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Les Paul, inventor of electric guitar, dies
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Songwriter Hugh Martin dies
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Music composer Shrinivas Khale passes away
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Elizabeth Taylor treated for congestive heart failure
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Legendary guitarist Les Paul dies
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Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
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Elizabeth Taylor dies at age 79
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Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dies at age 80
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Springsteen sax Man Clarence Clemons, 69, dies
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Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd dies at 80
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Movie pianist Art Ferrante dies at 88
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Superstar Billy Graham hospitalized and may be beginning heart failure
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Pianist earl Wild dies at 94
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Guitarist Ronnie Montrose dies
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Actress Joan Taylor dies:
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Jazz singer Lena Horne dies at 92