{"id":3937,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/dr-billy-taylor\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"dr-billy-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3937","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Billy Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><strong>Dr. Billy Taylor to recieive the <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"4\" face=\"Verdana\"><br \/><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" color=\"#0000FF\"><strong>The 7th Annual Charlie Parker  Award<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><strong>at the Americana Jazz Festival in New York City<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">The 52nd St. Americana Jazz Festival will present the 7th  annual Charlie Parker Memorial Award on Sunday, September 6th. The presentation will be  made to Dr. Billy Taylor by Parker&#8217;s wife, Doris Parker, on the main stage at 6th Ave.  &amp; 52nd St. at 2PM. Well know to many as a gifted jazz painist, compser and  broadcaster, Taylor is also widely recognized for his strides in jazz education. He began  his professional career in the late 1940&#8217;s as house pianist at Birdland, where he  performed with such jazz greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Haynes. During  his 50+ years in jazz, Dr. Taylor has received numerous prestigious awards, including  Downbeat Magazine&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement Award, the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship Award and  the Congressional Medal of the Arts. <\/p>\n<p>  The Americana Festival will be held on 52nd St. from Lexington Ave. to 7th Avenue on  September 6th from 11AM-6PM. Begun 23 years ago by the City of New York, the Festival  continues to be the most innovative of all street events in the City. There will be  continuous entertainment throughout the day beginning with a free concert by the Judy  Barnett Quintet on the main stage from Noon-5PM. In addition, there will be small combos  on each of the blocks of the Festival. <\/p>\n<p>  Over 400 antique and craft exhibitors will be participating in this event and will exhibit  thousands of &#8220;one of a kind&#8221; items, featuring art deco, folk art, vintage  memorabilita and clothing. The Festival is free and open to all. For further info call  212-764-6330..<\/font><\/p>\n<p>      <font size=\"1\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font>        <center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Billy Taylor to recieive the The 7th Annual Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}