Jim Bob Floyd

James Robert Floyd, also JB Floyd ( born June 2, 1929 in Tyler, Texas) is an American concert pianist ( jazz, classical, avant-garde ), composer and music educator.

Life

Floyd has been for many years a lecturer and director of the Piano Department at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. He is also a Yamaha Artist. His work as a pianist is distinguished by a rare versatility. He controls the entire classical repertoire, but also occurs as a jazz pianist, improviser and performer of contemporary music to electronics. As a composer, Floyd is one of the few who created several pieces for the computer-controlled Disklavier Yamaha company.

Discography (selection)

• A Transporting Transmittance (CD), Mutable Music ( May 2003)

• 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)