{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Short description|American classical and jazz pianist, music educator (born 1929)}} {{Infobox | name = | bodystyle = width:22em | titlestyle = | abovestyle = | subheaderstyle = | title = | above = | subheader = | imagestyle = | captionstyle = | image = | caption = | image2 = | caption2 = | headerstyle = background-color:#F8F9FB | labelstyle = background-color:#F8F9FB | datastyle = Main 1 | header1 = <big>JB Floyd</big> | label1 = | data1 = | header2 = | label2 = Born | data2 = James Robert Floyd<br />''aka'' Jim Bob Floyd<br />{{birth date and age|1929|06|02}}<br />Tyler, Texas | header3 = | label3 = Avocation | data3 = Concert pianist<br />Collegiate music educator | header4 = | label4 = Idiom | data4 = Classical<br />''Avant-garde''<br />Experimental | header5 = | label5 = Academic<br />Positions | data5 = {{Hanging indent |text=Chairman of Keyboard Performance}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;">{{Hanging indent |text=University of Miami, Frost School of Music}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(1981–2013)</small>{{space|1}}{{Sfn|"Pianist, Composer ... " June 5,|2013|p=}}</div></div>{{Hanging indent |text=Chairman of Keyboard Performance}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;">Northern Illinois University<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(1962–1981)</small></div></div>{{Hanging indent |text=Head of the Piano Department}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;">{{Hanging indent |text=Sam Houston State University}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(c. 1962)</small></div></div>{{Hanging indent |text=Chairman of the Fine Arts Division}}<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;">University of Corpus Christi<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(mid 1950s)</small></div></div>Piano Instructor<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;">University of Kentucky<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(1949)</small></div>University of North Texas<div style="margin-left:2em; line-height:14px;"><small>(1948)</small></div></div> | header6 = | label6 = | data6 = | header7 = | label7 = | data7 = | header8 = | label8 = | data8 = | header9 = | label9 = | data9 = | header10 = | label10 = | data10 = | header11 = | label11 = | data11 = | header12 = | label12 = | data12 = | header13 = | label13 = | data13 = | header14 = | label14 = | data14 = | header15 = | label15 = | data15 = | header16 = | label16 = | data16 = | header17 = | label17 = | data17 = | header18 = | label18 = | data18 = | header19 = | label19 = Website | data19 = {{url|www.jbfloyd.com}} | header20 = | label20 = | data20 = | belowstyle = | below = }}
'''JB Floyd''' ({{italic correction|''né''}} '''James Robert Floyd'''; born June 2, 1929){{Sfn|Texas Birth Certificate|p=}} is an American concert pianist (jazz, classical, experimental, ''avant-garde'', and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. Before retiring in 2013, Floyd spent 64 years as a music educator in higher education, including as chairman of keyboard performance at Northern Illinois University from 1962 to 1981 and chairman of keyboard performance at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music from 1982 to 2013. Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.{{Sfn|"Renaissance Man" August 8,|2003|p=}}{{Sfn|"Classical Pianists"|p=}}
==Education== Floyd earned a Bachelor of Music in 1948 and a Master of Music in 1950 from the University of North Texas (College of Music).{{Sfn|Commencement, North Texas, August 25,|1950|p=}} While at North Texas, he studied piano with Isabel and Silvio Scionti.{{Sfn|''Denton Record-Chronicle,'' April 27,|1952|p=}} In the 1950s, at the University of Corpus Christi,{{Sfn|"Teachers ..." March|1959|p=}} Floyd became head of the Department of Music, then Chairman of the Fine Arts Division.{{Sfn|''Corpus Christi Times,'' January 2,|1952|p=}} In Fall 1949, Floyd joined the music faculty of the University of Kentucky as piano instructor. He also served on the music faculty of Sam Houston State University.{{Sfn|National Guild Page,|1962|p=}}
==Career== Floyd, in 1949, was a grand winner of the National Guild of Piano Teachers Young Artist Competition at Town Hall in New York City. The award led to a sponsored solo recital at Town Hall, Wednesday, 8:30 {{smallcaps|pm}}, April 9, 1952. Harold C. Schonberg (1915–2003), a music critic for ''The New York Times'', reviewed the performance.{{Sfn|Schonberg, April 10, 1952|p=}} Floyd went on to earn a DMA in 1961 from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music.
In 1962, Floyd joined the music faculty at the University of Northern Illinois. In 1981, Floyd joined the faculty at the University of Miami. He taught there for 32 years, retiring as Chair ''Emeritus'' in 2013 while serving as Chair of the University of Miami's Department of Keyboard Performance.
== Selected discography == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * {{Hanging indent |text=''JB Floyd Trio at the Catacombs'' (jazz). JB Floyd (piano); Fred Atwood (bass); Dave Merrifield (drums); Tony Calzaretta, vocalist. Claremont Records (1966). Claremont Jazz Series CLP–666, Castle Productions, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.{{Sfn|J.B. Floyd Trio,|1966|p=}} }} * {{Hanging indent |text=''Suitable for Framing.'' David Rosenboom, JB Floyd, and Trichy Sankaran, A.R.C. Records (1975). {{OCLC|979580623|show=all}}. }} * {{Hanging indent |text=Vol. 18, CDCM Computer Music Series, ''The Composer in the Computer Age–III.'' Centaur Records (1994). {{OCLC|31869526|show=all}}. (Note: CDCM is an acronym for the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music). }} * {{Hanging indent |text=Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, ''The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry Austin Retrospective,'' Centaur Records (1995). {{OCLC|778855783|show=all}}. }} * {{Hanging indent |text=''Salvatore Martirano: "O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag.'' New World Records (1996). {{OCLC|162136581|show=all}}. }} * {{Hanging indent |text=''A Transporting Transmittance'' (CD), Mutable Music, label of Thomas Buckner (May 2003); {{OCLC|166266796|show=all}}.{{Sfn|Couture||p=}} }} * {{Hanging indent |text=''In Crossing The Busy Street'' (CD), Mutable Music (2009); {{OCLC|457181264}}. }} * {{Hanging indent |text=''Another Time And Place'' (CD), Mutable Music (2011); {{OCLC|773026916|show=all}}. }} {{div col end}}
== Selected publications == * "Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 111 In Its Historical Perspective" (Master of Music thesis), by James Robert Floyd, University of North Texas, College of Music (1950); {{OCLC|40814324}} * "The keyboard music of Pergolesi" (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi) (DMA dissertation), by James Robert Floyd, Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music (1961); {{OCLC|30933844}}
== Bibliography == === Notes === {{reflist}}
===References=== {{refbegin|indent=yes}} <!--C--> * {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|"Classical Pianists"||p=}} |url=https://www.yamaha.com/artists/jbfloyd.html |title=Classical Pianists – JB Floyd – Biography |date=n.d. |publisher=Yamaha Corporation of America |agency=Piano Division |location=Buena Park, California |language=en-US |access-date=March 19, 2021 }} * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Commencement, North Texas, August 25,|1950|p=}} |last=Commencement, North Texas |date=August 25, 1950 |chapter=James Robert Floyd |chapter-url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174873/m1/9/ |title=Summer Commencement of North Texas State College |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174873/m1/9/ |type=program |language=en-US |location=Denton |publisher=University of North Texas |page=17 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |via=University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library }} * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''Corpus Christi Times,'' January 2,|1952|p=}} |author1=The Corpus Christi Times |author-link1=Corpus Christi Caller-Times|last2=Bynum |first2=Kay |date=January 2, 1952 |title=Robert Floyd Is Ready for His Big Recital |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20277656/ |language=en-US |volume=42 |issue=155 |access-date=October 3, 2017 |page=B1 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }} (article provides early biographical information). {{ISSN|0894-5365}}. {{nowrap|LCCN {{URL|https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84006195/|sn84006195}}}}. {{OCLC|10863206}}. * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Couture||p=}} |last1=Couture |first1=François |author-link1= |date=2003 |title=Transporting Transmittance: Music of J.B. Floyd |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/transporting-transmittance-music-of-jb-floyd-r647574/review |type=album review |language=en-US |publisher=AllMusic }}
<!--D--> * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''Denton Record-Chronicle,'' April 27,|1952|p=}} |last1=Denton Record-Chronicle |author-link1=Denton Record-Chronicle |date=April 27, 1952 |title=N.Y. Newspapers Hail Floyd Debut |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/36802254/ |language=en-US |page=2 |volume=49 |issue=212 |access-date=March 22, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription}} "Floyd studied with Isabel and Silvio Scionti ..."
<!--J--> * {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|J.B. Floyd Trio,|1966|p=}} |last1=J.B. Floyd Trio |date=1966 |title=At the Catacombs |url=https://www.discogs.com/JB-Floyd-At-The-Catacombs/release/10524085 |type=LP vinyl record |language=en-US |location=Lake Geneva, Wisconsin |publisher=Castle Productions. Claremont Records. Claremont Jazz Series – CLP–666 |via=Discogs release no. 10524085}} J.B. Floyd (piano); Fred Atwood ({{italic correction|''né''}} Fred Connell Atwood; born 1937) (bass); Dave Merrifield ({{italic correction|''né''}} David Kay Merrifield; born 1937) (drums); Tony Calzaretta ({{italic correction|''né''}} Anthony John Calzaretta; born 1940), vocalist (Claremont was a label of Vernon Charles Castle; 1928–2008).
<!--N--> * {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|National Guild Page,|1962|p=}} |last1=National Guild [of Piano Teachers] Page |author-link1= |date=September–October 1962 |title=Robert Floyd to Give Town Hall Recital |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43536575/ |access-date=March 22, 2021 |url-access=subscription |journal=American Music Teacher |type=front matter |language=en-US |publisher=Music Teachers National Association |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=44 |jstor=43536575 |issn=0003-0112|oclc=494567442}}.
<!--P--> * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|"Pianist, Composer ... " June 5,|2013|p=}} |date=June 5, 2013 |orig-year= |title=Pianist, Composer and Educator JB Floyd Retires From Frost School of Music |url=http://www.miami.edu/frost/index.php/frost/media/frost_news |url-status= |language=en-US |publisher=University of Miami, Frost School of Music, Media, Frost News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620041301/http://www.miami.edu/frost/index.php/frost/media/frost_news/pianist_composer_and_educator_jb_floyd_retires_from_frost_school_of_music/ |archive-date=June 20, 2017}} Originally retrieved October 3, 2017
<!--R--> * {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|"Renaissance Man" August 8,|2003|p=}} |url=https://usa.yamaha.com/news_events/2003/20030808_renaissance-man-jb-floyd_us.html |title=Renaissance Man: JB Floyd |date=August 8, 2003 |publisher=Yamaha Corporation of America |agency=Piano Division |location=Buena Park, California |language=en-US |access-date=October 26, 2011 }}
<!--S--> * {{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|Schonberg, April 10, 1952||p=}} |last1=Schonberg |first1=Harold Charles |author-link1=Harold Charles Schonberg |date=April 10, 1952 |title=Robert Floyd Gives First Recital Here |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/04/10/84249526.html?zoom=15.21 |work=The New York Times|department=Amusements |type=review |language=en-US |volume=101, whole no. {{nowrap|34410}} |page=L37 (column 3 of 8, top) |access-date=March 19, 2021 |via=TimesMachine |url-access=subscription }}
<!--T--> * {{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|"Teachers ..." March|1959|p=}} |date=February–March 1959 |title=Teachers Go to Work |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3389055 |access-date= |url-access=subscription |department= |journal=Music Educators Journal |language=en-US |publisher=National Association for Music Education |volume=45 |issue=4 |page=12 |jstor=3389055 |jstor-access= }}{{space|1}}{{ISSN|0027-4321}} (print). {{ISSN|1945-0087}} (web). {{LCCN|2006236975}}. {{OCLC|1639434|show=all}}. * {{cite web |ref={{SfnRef|Texas Birth Certificate||p=}} |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VH81-5FH |url-access=registration |last1=Texas Birth Certificate – "James Robert Floyd" – "Amendment to Certificate of Birth" |title=Texas Birth Index, 1903–1997 |department=Searching James Robert Floyd → DOB: June 2, 1929 → Place of birth: Tyler, Smith County |publisher=Texas Department of State Health Services |location=Austin |language=en-US |type=database with images |access-date=March 19, 2021 |via=FamilySearch }}{{space|1}}Reference ID: 51919; GS film no. 2240970; digital folder no. 4688276; image no. 285 (of 3534); indexing project (batch) no. C06136-3. {{refend}}
== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.jbfloyd.com|JB Floyd official website}} {{Authority control}}
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