brought the music he loved to the masses at the grassroots level as well as more formal arenas. He was sometimes better known as a television personality than a pianist. He was quoted in a 2007 article in the Post Magazine: "there's no question that being an advocate eclipsed my reputation as a musician. It was my doing. I wanted to prove to people that jazz has an audience. I had to do that for me." Awards and honors Taylor had more than 20 honorary doctoral degrees and was the recipient of two Peabody Awards for Jazzmobile, NEA Jazz Masters Award (1998), an Emmy Award (1983) for carrying out over 250 interviews for CBS News Sunday Morning, a Grammy Award (2004) Down Beat magazine's Lifetime Achievement award (1984), National Medal of Arts (1992), and the Tiffany Award (1991). In 1981, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of Music. He was honored in 2001 with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Jazz Living Legend Award, and election to the Hall of Fame for the International Association for Jazz Education. He served as artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he developed many critically acclaimed concert series, including the Louis Armstrong Legacy series, and the annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. In addition, he performed at the White House seven times and was one of only three jazz musicians to be appointed to the National Council of the Arts. Taylor was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Discography As leader 1945: Billy Taylor Piano (Savoy) 1951: Piano Panorama (Atlantic and 1957 as most of The Billy Taylor Touch) 1952: Jazz At Storyville (Roost 1952) 1953: Billy Taylor Trio (Prestige) 1953–54: Cross Section (Prestige) – released 1956 (includes all tracks from Billy Taylor Plays for DJs) 1954: The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido (Prestige) 1954: Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall (Prestige) (Status 1965) 1955: A Touch of Taylor (Prestige) 1956: Evergreens (ABC-Paramount) 1956: Billy Taylor at the London House (ABC-Paramount) 1957: Introduces Ira Sullivan (ABC-Paramount) 1957: My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (ABC-Paramount; Impulse! 1965, ABC Impulse! 1968) 1957: The Billy Taylor Touch (Atlantic) - featuring tracks recorded in 1951 and 1957 1957: The New Billy Taylor Trio (ABC-Paramount) 1959: One for Fun (Atlantic) 1959: Billy Taylor with Four Flutes (Riverside; with