TAYLOR, CECIL PERCIVAL. Jazz pianist ( in New York, New York). He came from a musical family; his mother played piano, and an uncle played violin, percussions, and piano. He began piano study at the age of five with local teachers. When Taylor was a child, his uncle took him to hear the leading jazz bands of the time, among others,
Cabell (Cab
) Calloway
, Bennie Goodman, James (Jimmie
) Lunceford, and
William (Chick
) Webb
. He obtained his musical education in...