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BOX 122-125, 127-128, 132-155 Writings, 1945-2001
Speeches, articles, lectures and public statements by Taylor; Taylor's dissertation; articles, clippings, reviews, and publicity materials about Taylor; projects, programs, and proposals; reports, studies, surveys; research papers; stage and screen materials.
BOX 122-124, 128, 132-137, 141, 148 Writings by Billy Taylor, 1956-2000
BOX 132 Addresses and Speeches
BOX-FOLDER 132/1a Addresses to graduating classes, undated
Holograph in pencil and typewritten manuscripts
Graduating classes not identified.
BOX-FOLDER 132/2 Address to young musicians, undated
BOX-FOLDER 132/3 Arts & Business Council, undated
BOX-FOLDER 132/4 Baltimore Alumni Chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi, undated
BOX-FOLDER 132/5 Berklee graduating class, undated
BOX-FOLDER 132/6 “Summer is a special time for music ...” undated
(2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/7 Testimony before the Sub-Committee on Select Education, undated
BOX 132, 141, 148 Articles
BOX-FOLDER 132/9 "The arts: for whom and from whom?" undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/10 "Back in the sixties ..." undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/11 "Billy Taylor jazz improvisation," undated
Photocopy
A series of eighteen articles published in Contemporary Keyboard magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 132/12 "Billy Taylor talks piano," Jan. 1981
(3 copies)
Reprint from Up Beat.
BOX-FOLDER 132/13 "Black radio ... public management and responsibility," June 1973
From Muses.
BOX-FOLDER 141/2 "Blues piano," Contemporary Keyboard (Sept. 1979): p. 72
BOX-FOLDER 132/14 "The business of jazz," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/15 "Chromatics," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/16 "Count Basie - an appreciation," undated
Holograph in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 132/17 "Count Basie - an appreciation," undated
Typewritten manuscript (2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/18 "Count Basie: the gentleman from Redbank," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/19 "Critical issue in art," undated
Holograph in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 148/1 “Dear jazz lover...” Jan. 2000
From Kennedy Center Jazz.
BOX-FOLDER 141/3 "Focus on jazz," Harper's Bazaar (June 1973): p. 57
BOX-FOLDER 141/4 "Is jazz America's classical music?" Ovation (July 1982): p.11
BOX-FOLDER 132/20 "Is jazz America's classical music?, 1982
From Ovation magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 132/21 "The jam session," undated
Holograph in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 132/21 "The jam session," undated
Manuscript in ink
BOX-FOLDER 132/22 "Jazz," April 1982
(2 bound copies)
From The Musical Quarterly.
BOX-FOLDER 132/23-24 "Jazz, America's classical music," undated
Typewritten manuscripts (5 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/25 "Jazz: America's classical music," 1983
(2 copies)
Reprint from Billy Taylor's Jazz piano: a jazz history.
BOX-FOLDER 132/26 "Jazz: America's classical music," undated
From The Black Perspective in Music.
BOX-FOLDER 132/27 "Jazz as a metaphor for American culture," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 141/5 "Jazz improvisation: Count Basie - an appreciation," Contemporary Keyboard (Nov. 1979): p. 77
BOX-FOLDER 141/6 "Jazz improvisation: voicings for large hands," Contemporary Keyboard (Oct. 1979): p. 91
(2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/28 "Jazz is America's classical music," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/29 "Jazz is America's classical music," undated
Photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 132/30 "Jazz is hard to beat this year," June 4, 1974
Photocopy of news clipping
BOX-FOLDER 141/7 "Jazz piano today and tomorrow," Saturday Review Magazine (March 17, 1956): p. 36
(2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/31 "Jazzmobile," undated
Holograph in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 141/8 "Jazzmobile: twenty years of progress," Harlem Week Magazine (Aug. 1989): p. 36
BOX-FOLDER 132/32 "Music in our schools," undated
Photocopy
Issued by the Government Printing Office.
BOX-FOLDER 132/33 "My first 50 years in jazz," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/34 "My first 50 years in jazz," undated
Published by GRP Records, Inc.
BOX-FOLDER 132/35 "Negroes don't know anything about jazz," undated
Photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 132/36 "On the bandstand with Bird," July 1996
Photocopy
From Live magazine.
BOX-FOLDER 132/8 "A participant recounts the 1940's revolution in American classical music," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 141/9 "Piano panorama: insights into the ivories," Downbeat Magazine (March 10, 1977): p. 19
BOX-FOLDER 141/10 "Progressive jazz," Downbeat Magazine (March 7, 1956): p. 11
BOX-FOLDER 132/37 "Ragtime," undated
Typewritten manuscript (3 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 132/38 "The subject is jazz," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/30 "Summer is special for music," undated
Photocopy of news clipping
BOX-FOLDER 132/39 "This is progressive jazz," undated
Printed (7 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 141/1 "A tribute to Art Tatum," Toledo Magazine (June 30, 1985): p. 7
(2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 141/11 "We're wasting a national resource," Billboard Magazine (Feb. 1, 1986): p. 10
BOX-FOLDER 132/40 "What a year!" undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/41 "Women in jazz," undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 132/42 "Women in jazz," undated
Photocopy of printed article
BOX 132 Autobiographical
BOX-FOLDER 132/1 "A large part of my life ..." undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX 133 Billy Taylor on His Original Compositions
BOX-FOLDER 133/1 Homage, undated
Holograph in pencil and typescript (3 versions)
BOX-FOLDER 133/2 Impromtu, undated
Holgraph in ink and typescript
BOX-FOLDER 133/3 Make a joyful noise, undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 133/4 Peaceful warrior, undated
Typewritten manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 133/5 Suite for jazz piano and orchestra, undated
Typewritten manuscripts (3 versions)
BOX-FOLDER 133/6 Theme & variation, undated
Holograph in pencil
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