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Name
  
Jim Floyd


Role
  
Musical Artist

Albums
  
In Crossing The Busy Street, Another Time and Place

Similar People
  
Thomas Buckner, David Rosenboom, Salvatore Martirano, Trichy Sankaran

James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas) is an American concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant-garde, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at Northern Illinois University and the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.

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Selected discography

  • Another Time And Place (CD), Mutable Music (2011) OCLC 773026916
  • In Crossing The Busy Street (CD), Mutable Music (2009) OCLC 457181264
  • A Transporting Transmittance (CD), Mutable Music (May 2003) OCLC 166266796
  • Suitable for Framing David Rosenboom, JB Floyd & Trichy Sankaran, Mutable Music (1975)
  • Salvatore Martirano: "O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
  • Vol. 18, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age–III"
    1. Paul Lansky – Stroll, for chamber group and computer music on tape
    2. Cindy McTee – "M" Music (1991-92), for alto saxophone and computer music on tape
    3. Charles Dodge – In Celebration (1975), computer music on tape
    4. J.B. Floyd – Tribute (1991), piano and computer music system
    5. Allen Strange – Sleeping Beauty (1988-92), for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds — performed by Debra Richtmeyer (alto saxophone)
    JB Floyd (piano), Patricia Strange (violin), members of the University of North Texas College of Music Faculty Chamber Players conducted by Thomas Clark: Mary Karen Clardy (flute), Robert Schietroma (marimba), assisted by marimbist, Hsin-Yi Wu, Carter Enyeart (cello), Adam Wodnicki (piano)
  • Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry Austin Retrospective," Centaur Records (1995)
    1. AccidentsTwo: Sound Projections, for Piano with Computer Music
    2. Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
    3. Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 4 (1972, rev. 1994) for Yamaha Disklavier piano
    4. Event/Complex No. 9 (1974), for percussion, combined with delay system and electronic music on tape
    5. Accidents (1967), for electronically prepared piano and Buchla-100 Electronic Music System
    Performed by David Tudor, Montague/Mead Piano Plus (Stephen Montague & Philip Mead), Robert McCormick, J.B. Floyd, and the CBC Radio Ensemble

    Notable former students

    University of Miami Frost School of Music

  • Gabe Dixon
  • Karen Walwyn
  • Srdjan Caldarovic
  • Jane Abbott-Kirk (born 1943), married in 1983 to Roger E. Kirk, PhD (born 1930)

    • References

    Jim Bob Floyd Wikipedia
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