Billy Taylor

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Heh, I know this feeling.  I was introduced to Professor Longhair via
one of those Dr. John instructional videos and it turned out to be
nowhere near as easy as it sounds.  It probably doesn't help that the
night tripper appears to have been sedated for much of these sessions.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Funny story I heard about Billy Taylor.  He had been hearing about Professor
> Longhair, but had never heard him, so a friend was playing some of the
> professor's albums for him.  Taylor listened awhile and said (more or less),
> "I don't get it; this is just simple stuff."  He then walked over to a piano
> to play along, tried, and said "I can't play this."  Reason being that the
> professor's rhythms and sense of the beat were so idiosyncratic and odd.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 5:51 am
> Subject: Re: Billy Taylor
>
>
> Condolences.On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:18 PM, alice
> wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:> One of the best teachers
> I had as a young women, Billy Taylor left his> mark on quite  a few of
> us.>> http://www.billytaylorjazz.com/>
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