Billy Taylor
piano
Pianist, educator and broadcaster (1921–2010) and a founder of New York’s Jazzmobile; the sources name him only in passing, never clearly in Barry’s own words, chiefly through a funeral speaker whom Barry taught at Jazzmobile.
- mentions
- 3
- recordings
- 3
- Barry speaking
- 0
Every mention
3 moments in the recordings, 0 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Barry Harris Funeral
- 50:36
A student
Funeral speaker: Billy Taylor invited the speaker, at 18, to learn piano at Jazzmobile, where Barry taught them from 1968.
The Great Pianist Barry Harris’ Funeral At Abyssinian Baptist Church In Harlem
- 37:27
A student
The same eulogy in a second funeral upload: Taylor brought the speaker to Jazzmobile, where Barry was their teacher.
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
- 13:34
Speaker unclear
On Piano Jazz, talk of the Hickory House years: someone recalls Taylor working at a club; caption garbled.
In the interviews and notes
Writing about Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, Tom Cleary cites Pullman’s Powell biography, where Billy Taylor recalls Powell telling him he wanted the piano to sound just like Parker.
Tom Cleary (University of Vermont), Six Degrees of Bud Powell, Part ii-V-I ¶11
Cleary points to Taylor’s various versions of his own tune I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free as another case, like Parker’s solos on one set of changes, of a piece that keeps being reworked rather than aimed at one perfect form.
Tom Cleary (University of Vermont), What is this scale called: Charlie Parker ¶3
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.