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Billy Taylor (other)
Billy Taylor (1921–2010) was an American jazz pianist. Billy Taylor or Bill Taylor may also refer to: Sport American and Canadian football * Billy Taylor (running back, born 1956), former American football running back for the New York Giants, New York Jets and Los Angeles Raiders * Billy Taylor (running back, born 1949), former American and Canadian football running back for the Calgary Stampeders Baseball * Billy Taylor (1880s pitcher) (1855–1900), baseball pitcher * Billy Taylor (third baseman) (1870–1905), baseball infielder * Bill Taylor (baseball) (1929–2011), baseball outfielder * Billy Taylor (1990s pitcher) (born 1961), baseball pitcher Football (soccer) * Bill Taylor (footballer, born 1869) (1869–?), English association footballer who played for Small Heath * Bill Taylor (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1966), English association football player with Burnley and Oldham Athletic * Bill Taylor (footballer, born 1938), Scottish association football player w ...
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Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) 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. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. 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. Taylor was a jazz educator, who lectured in colleges, served on panels and travelled worldwide as a jazz ambassador. Critic Leonard Feather once said, "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." Biography Early life and career Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina, Unit ...
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Bill Taylor (alpine Skier)
Bill Taylor (born June 10, 1956 in St. Louis) is an American former alpine skier who competed in the men's slalom at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... External links sports-reference.com* 1956 births Living people American male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for the United States Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from St. Louis 20th-century American people {{US-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ...
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Call Of Duty 2
''Call of Duty 2'' is a 2005 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision in most regions of the world. It is the second installment of the ''Call of Duty'' series. Announced by Activision on April 7, 2005, the game was released for Microsoft Windows on October 25, 2005, and as a launch title for the Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005. Other versions were eventually released for OS X, mobile phones, and Pocket PCs. The game is set during World War II and the campaign mode is experienced through the perspectives of four soldiers: one in the Red Army, one in the United States Army, and two in the British Army. It contains four individual campaigns, split into three stories, with a total of 27 missions. Many features were added and changed from the original '' Call of Duty'', notably regenerating health and an icon that indicates a nearby grenade about to explode. The game drew critical praise, particularly for the graphics, sound, and the ...
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Bill Taylor (South Carolina Politician)
Bill Taylor (born July 16, 1946) is an American politician. He is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 86th District, serving since November 8, 2010. He is a member of the Republican party. The 86th district covers nearly two-thirds of Aiken County, South Carolina and consists of a population more than 41,000. Taylor currently is a member of the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee. He served for a decade on the House Education and Public Works Committee, and six years on the Legislative Oversight Committee. Pre-Political Career Bill Taylor worked in the field of journalism for many years. From 1965 to 1976, Taylor's job varied from being a reporter, news presenter, and news director, in which he would also serve as President of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association, in 1974. Bill would proceed to work as a news consultant for more than 3 decades, in which he would also be the founder and CEO of a media research and consulting firm bas ...
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Bill Taylor (Ohio Politician)
Bill Taylor was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000. His district consisted of a portion of Lorain County, Ohio Lorain County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,964. Its county seat is Elyria. The county was physically established in 1822, becoming judicially independent in 1824. .... He was elected in the 1994 election with a margin of only 12 votes. He was succeeded by J. Tom Lendrum. References Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ohio-OHRepresentative-stub ...
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Bill Taylor (businessman)
William C. Taylor is co-founder and editor of Fast Company Magazine, with Alan Webber. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and wrote a column in the Money section of ''The Guardian'' newspaper. Taylor received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, .... References External linksBabson faculty page
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Bill Taylor (naval Officer)
Commodore William Leonard Taylor, (born 14 September 1938) is a former Australian naval officer and politician. He was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy, resigning to run for federal parliament. He represented the Liberal Party in the House of Representatives from 1988 to 1998, holding the Queensland seat of Groom. He later served as administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories from 1999 to 2003. Early life Taylor was born on 14 September 1938 in Toowoomba, Queensland. He attended Toowoomba Grammar School. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from the Campaspe College of Adult Education and Master of Literature from the University of New England. Military career Taylor joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1957. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1971, commander in 1974, captain in 1981 and commodore in 1986. Politics Taylor joined the Liberal Party in 1972. He was elected to parliament at the 1988 Groom by-election, which followed the retir ...
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Bill Taylor (English Politician)
Sir Bill Taylor (born 1952) is the former leader of Blackburn with Darwen Council in England and election agent for Blackburn MP and former Justice Minister Jack Straw from 1979 to 2010. He was Mayor of the Borough of Blackburn from 1989–90 and was knighted in 2003 for services to local government.Queen's Honours List
, 2003 From its creation in the late 1990s, Blackburn with Darwen was Council of the Year twice. He was approached to assume the role of Chair of 3rd Sector Lancashire to coordinate Lancashire's 4,500+ voluntary groups. From 2009 till 2013 he chaired the Blackburn with Darwen ground breaking NHS Care Trust Plus.


Education and professional life

Taylor graduated in Politics, Education and Trade Union Studies at
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Billy Taylor (jazz Bassist)
William Taylor Sr. (April 3, 1906 – September 2, 1986) was an American jazz bassist. He was born Washington, D.C. and died in Fairfax, Virginia. Taylor began playing tuba but later picked up bass alongside it. After moving to New York City in 1924, he played with Elmer Snowden (1925), Willie Gant and Arthur Gibbs (1926), Charlie Johnson (1927–29, 1932–33), Duke Ellington (1928), McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929–31), Fats Waller (1934), and Fletcher Henderson. He recorded with Jelly Roll Morton on three sessions in 1930. From 1935 to 1940, he again played with Ellington, and it is for this association that he is best remembered; he often played with a second bassist in the orchestra, at times Hayes Alvis or Jimmie Blanton. During that time, he also recorded with Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges. In the 1940s, he played with Coleman Hawkins (1940), Red Allen (1940–41), Joe Sullivan (1942), Raymond Scott (1942–43), Cootie Williams (1944), Barney Bigard (1944–45), ...
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Bill Taylor (aviator)
Sir Patrick Gordon Taylor, (21 October 1896 – 15 December 1966), commonly known as Bill Taylor, was an Australian aviator and author. He was born at Mosman, Sydney, and died in Honolulu. Taylor attended The Armidale School in northern New South Wales. At the beginning of the First World War he applied to join the Australian Flying Corps but was rejected. He subsequently went to Britain and was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, joining No. 66 Squadron. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 and promoted to captain, also serving with Nos. 94 and 88 Squadrons. Following the war he returned to Australia and embarked on a career in civil aviation, working as a private pilot and for de Havilland Aircraft Company in the 1920s. He flew as a captain with Australian National Airways 1930–31. He also completed an engineering course and studied aerial navigation. He served as second pilot or navigator on pioneering flights with Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm an ...
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Billy Taylor (cricketer, Born 1977)
Billy Taylor (born 11 January 1977) is an English cricket umpire who was previously a professional cricketer. As an umpire, he currently represents the United States. He started playing for Hampshire during the 2004 season, before which he played for Sussex. While at Sussex, he had won the Frizzell County Championship in 2003, their first season victory in the trophy's history. He received a county cap for Hampshire in 2006. Taylor, who also played for Wiltshire, has three hat-tricks to his name and was listed in the 2005 C&G Trophy-winning Hampshire squad. He achieved one of his hat tricks during a Hampshire v Middlesex game and a career best of 6 for 32, this was the first hat-trick at the Rose Bowl. Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove announced on 27 August 2009 that the club had released Taylor, ending his five-year tenure at the club. In 2011, he was added to the England and Wales Cricket Board list of reserve umpires, alongside Russell Evans and Alex Wharf. In 2016 Billy ...
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Billy Taylor (basketball)
Billy Taylor (born June 12, 1973) is an American college basketball coach. He is the current head coach for the Elon Phoenix men's basketball team. Taylor previously served as the head men's basketball coach at Lehigh University from 2002 to 2007 and Ball State University from 2007 to 2013. Playing career Taylor was an honor roll student and commencement speaker at West Aurora High School in Aurora, Illinois. He was recruited by Digger Phelps to play at the University of Notre Dame, though he played under John MacLeod. Coaching career After spending three years working for Arthur Andersen and earning his CPA, Taylor took an assistant coaching position under MacLeod at Notre Dame in 1998. One year later he followed former Lehigh head coach Fran McCaffery to UNC Greensboro. Taylor was appointed to succeed Sal Mentesana as the 26th men's basketball head coach at Lehigh University on April 16, 2002. In his inaugural campaign, he become the all-time winningest first-year coach in ...
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