Jim Bob Floyd
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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.
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"
- Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry Austin Retrospective," Centaur Records (1995)
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)