Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Billy Taylor
Born: July 24, 1921
Died: December 28, 2010 (aged 89)
Bio: William "Billy" Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F.
Known for:
- Billy Taylor Piano Styles (2007)
- Thieving Weasels
- The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor
- Cracking the Theft Rings (2008)
- Ragtime Piano Solos and How to Play Them