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Billy Taylor

After graduating from film school, Billy Taylor worked as an electrician on Lifetime Network's "Good Sex with Dr. Ruth." Feeling a need to be closer to what was happening in front of the camera, Billy became a dolly grip and spent the next decade on dozens of movies and television programs including "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and "My Cousin Vinny." After a back injury ended his grip career he worked for a boutique Wall Street consulting firm. Tiring of that, he and his wife moved to South Central Texas where he began writing full time. He is now a stay-at-home dad and writes between diaper changes, which he finds surprisingly similar to much of the work he did while on the... Read full bio

Based on the Movie is now available in Trade Paperback
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All About Jazz, March 14, 2012
...York. Soon, she was a valued insider in that world, fighting to bring the music of jazz pianist Billy Taylor and the hugely influential Duke Ellington to audiences no matter what the color. Along the way, Renatta DeBlase faced prejudice from both white...
Martha's Vineyard Patch, March 13, 2012
...for the Kennedy Center Jazz program, a position previously held by the late legendary pianist and educator Dr. Billy Taylor. Also on the line up are: Nasheet Waits hailed as the most important drummer of our time; The Larry Brown Quintet with their...
Washington Post, March 6, 2012
...to its new artistic adviser, Jason Moran, who has assumed the reins after the death of the prolific Billy Taylor in 2010. Among the jazzy new additions? A jazz club space to complement the intimate K.C. Jazz Club. During this mornings news conference,...
OneClimate.net, January 24, 2012
...him? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-u-turn Recommend? (11) Responses (2) | Link peterpuffin 23 January 2012 6:53PM Billy Taylor Hi. The IPCC was formed 1988 after campaigning pressure from...
Jazz Times, January 12, 2012
...unannounced, played “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” on rotary valve flugelhorn, in honor of the late Billy Taylor. Ron Carter and Hubert Laws played an affecting duo medley, and Golson and Frank Wess drank deep of the blues with the Lincoln...
All About Jazz, December 27, 2011
...recorded with are the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Turtle Island String Quartet, Quartet Indigo, the Steve Turre Sextet, the Billy Taylor Trio, Avery Sharpe, Cecil McBee, Jay Hoggard and James Newton. Blake released his recording debut as a leader and...
All About Jazz, December 27, 2011
...recorded with are the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Turtle Island String Quartet, Quartet Indigo, the Steve Turre Sextet, the Billy Taylor Trio, Avery Sharpe, Cecil McBee, Jay Hoggard and James Newton. Blake released his recording debut as a leader and...
Bucknell Bison, March 2, 2012
...is the third repeat winner in league history, joining Lafayette's Fran O'Hanlon (1998-99) and Lehigh's Billy Taylor (2003-04), and he is one of seven to claim the award multiple times. Paulsen's selection as Patriot League Coach of the Year gives...
Bucknell Bison, March 2, 2012
...is the third repeat winner in league history, joining Lafayette's Fran O'Hanlon (1998-99) and Lehigh's Billy Taylor (2003-04), and he is one of seven to claim the award multiple times. Paulsen's selection as Patriot League Coach of the Year gives...
TMC Net, March 2, 2012
...(The Moultrie Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Billy Taylor of Moultrie, Windstream's vice president in charge of its South Georgia and Florida operations, will retire on March 2 after nearly 48 years of service. "Billy is...
TMC Net, March 2, 2012
...(The Moultrie Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Billy Taylor of Moultrie, Windstream's vice president in charge of its South Georgia and Florida operations, will retire on March 2 after nearly 48 years of service. "Billy is...
Individual.com, March 2, 2012
...(The Moultrie Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Billy Taylor of Moultrie, Windstream's vice president in charge of its South Georgia and Florida operations, will retire on March 2 after nearly 48 years of service. "Billy is...
Collider.com, March 1, 2012
...jazz musicians of their day. Cast: Marian McPartland, Herbie Hancock, Mary Lou Williams, Anat Cohen, Ingrid Jensen, Dr. Billy Taylor, Sherrie Maricle and The Diva Jazz Orchestra, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington and Patrice Rushen (Georgia on...
Star Press, March 1, 2012
...MUNCIE -- Jesse Berry smiled and put his arm on the left shoulder of Ball State basketball coach Billy Taylor as they and Randy Davis sat down in the Worthen Arena Media Room for postgame interviews Wednesday night...