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Bill Cunliffe Bill (*1956) is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He studied at Duke University with Mary Lou Williams. He earned his master's degree from the Eastman School of Music. He taught at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, then toured as a pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra. Over the course of his career, he also played with Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, James Moody, and Joshua Redman.   He currently works with his own trio, Imaginacion, and in a duo with jazz flautist Holly Hofmann, with whom he has recorded five albums. Bill has also written two books on jazz topics, Jazz Keyboard Toolbox and Jazz Piano Inventions (Alfred Publications), and has published big band compositions and choral music. As a composer and arranger, he has worked with orchestras such as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic, the Reading (PA) Symphony, and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. His orchestral works include the three-part Romantic Fantasy for piano and orchestra and Viva Mexico. He teaches as an Assistant Professor of Music at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.   Bill won the 1989 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Award and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His arrangement of "Do I Again" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006. Bill won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for Oscar Peterson's West Side Story Medley. He has also won several Down Beat Awards for big band and orchestral compositions.   from Wikipedia

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Overtones dmac music DM21 recorded September 2021 in Glendale, CA/USA

Doug MacDonald, guitar Kim Richmond, alto sax Rickey Woodard, tenor sax Ira Nepus, trombone Aaron Janik, trumpet Bill Cunliffe, Hammond B-3 organ, piano Chuck Berghofer, bass Roy McCurdy, drums Paul Kreibich, shaker

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