The Acid Cole Trio celebrates the piano music of Nat King Cole, featuring Bill with bassist Darek Oles and guitarist Larry Koonse.
https://thegrapeventura.com/
Bill plays, rehearses and performs with students at Duke University, and performs with the Duke Jazz Ensemble, conducted by John Brown. Details upcoming.
Dave Stryker is an American jazz guitarist. He has recorded over thirty-five albums as a leader and has been a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and Kevin Mahogany. He will be guest star with the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra and Chamber Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Rodolfo Zuniga. He will also do a masterclass on Friday the 25th.
Bill and University Symphony Orchestra conductor lead the Fullerton Pops Orchestra in a concert of jazz, pop and swing music. Featuring saxophonist Ernie Watts, trumpeter Kye Palmer, and vocalists Jack Wood and Femi Knight.
for tickets go to https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/cpac_boxoffice.php
Bill plays with legendary Cannonball Adderley drummer Roy McCurdy at the Los Angeles County Museum of the Arts. Rickey Woodard, saxophone, and Mike Gurrola, bass. 6 to 8pm.
Bill featured with legendary Bill Evans drummer Joe La Barbera at Sam First Jazz Bar. Also featured are trumpeter Clay Jenkins, saxophonist Bob Sheppard, and bassist Jonathan Richards. Shows at 730 and 9
Bill featured with legendary Bill Evans drummer Joe La Barbera at Sam First Jazz Bar. Also featured are trumpeter Clay Jenkins, saxophonist Bob Sheppard, and bassist Jonathan Richards. Shows at 730 and 9
Bill performs with the Vail Festival Sextet, including Wycliffe Gordon, Terell Stafford, John Clayton, Lewis Nash, and Tim Green.
www.vailjazz.org
Bill will be featured arranger and piano soloist with the Mina Choi Orchestra at Campus JAX in Newport Beach. Show is 7 to 8:30.
Bill performs with legendary Cannonball Adderley drummer Roy McCurdy, and his group, featuring bassist Mike Gurrola and saxophonist Rickey Woodard. Old Town Temecula Community Theater, Temecula, CA
https://jazzatthemerc.com/
Bill joins singer Jack Wood’s group at Vittorio’s Restaurant in Huntington Beach from 8 to 11. Featuring Ron Eschete, Paul Kreibich and Luther Hughes.
http://vittoriositalian.com/
Bill performs and discusses jazz piano at Concordia University, in Irvine, CA
Bill joins up-and-coming Korean pianist/composer Mina Choi in a fascinating blend of East and West big band sounds. Featuring songs from Mina’s new CD, Stories
Vibrato Grill and Jazz is one of LA’s best places to hear music, with great food and gorgeous artwork throughout.
Bill performs the music of Tommy Flanagan and John Lewis as well as his own originals and jazz standards
Jazzbird 8445 E. Hartford Drive, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
https://theravenscroft.com/events/category/jazzbird/
Bill performs his originals and standards with Arthur Vint, drums, and Colin McIlrath, bass.
Tickets available here.
https://hotelcongress.com/calendar/
Bill joins bassist Darek Oles and guitarist Larry Koonse for a concert featuring the music of Nat King Cole.
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
585 E. Colorado Blvd. • Pasadena, California 91101
626-793-2191
Bill leads his trio at Mezzrow with the great bassist Martin Wind, and the fantastic drummer Tim Horner. Shows at 6 and 730 Bill will play selections from his current album Border Widow’s Lament on Night is Alive Records.
163 W 10th St New York, NY 10014 (646) 476-4346
Bill and Ernie play duo at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave, Pasadena, CA. https://allsaints-pas.org/
Ernie Watts is a Grammy-winning American jazz and R&B saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's album The Grand Wazoo he played the "Mystery Horn", a straight-necked C melody saxophone. Watts also played the notable sax riff on "The One You Love" from Glenn Frey's album No Fun Aloud.
Bill performs with legendary Cannonball Adderley drummer Roy McCurdy and saxophonist Rickey Woodard and bassist Mike Gurrola
Bill performs with legendary Cannonball Adderley drummer Roy McCurdy and saxophonist Rickey Woodard and bassist Mike Gurrola
Bill performs with clarinetist Ken Peplowski and the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center. www.themuck.org
“Ken Peplowski is arguably the greatest
living jazz clarinetist!”
— Russell Davies, BBC2 August 2013
Featured will be the music of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman and others.
Bill and the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra celebrate the music of Dizzy Gillespie with trumpeter Terell Stafford. Stafford Director of Jazz Studies at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.
He has played with McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, John Clayton, Steve Turre, Dave Valentin, and Russell Malone and on stages such as Carnegie Hall and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He recently released a CD entitled New Beginnings featuring a number of other new up-and-coming musicians such as bassist Derrick Hodge.
In addition to his position at Temple, Stafford has also worked with the Juilliard School's jazz program, at the Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington program, and with the 2006 All-Alaska Jazz Band.
Bill Cunliffe Jazz Trio with featured guest saxophonist Santiago Von at Vinco Jazz Club, Mexico City, with bassists Aaron Cruz and Marcos Milagres, drummer Mario Garcia Cruz
Motolinía 20, Centro Cuauhtémoc C.P. 06050, CDMX México +
phone 55 1131 7760, zinco.booking@gmail. com
Bill Cunliffe Jazz Trio at Vinco Jazz Club, Mexico City, with bassists Aaron Cruz and Marcos Milagres, drummer Mario Garcia Cruz
Motolinía 20, Centro Cuauhtémoc C.P. 06050, CDMX México +
phone 55 1131 7760, zinco.booking@gmail. com
Bill Cunliffe Jazz Trio at Vinco Jazz Club, Mexico City, with bassists Aaron Cruz and Marcos Milagres, drummer Mario Garcia Cruz
Motolinía 20, Centro Cuauhtémoc C.P. 06050, CDMX México +
phone 55 1131 7760, zinco.booking@gmail. com
Bill and pianist Alison Edwards perform a two piano recital themed “UnRaveled”, featuring music of Maurice Ravel, and music influenced by him.
Ravel’s Ondine and selections from Tombeau de Couperin
Song for Ruth, by Bill Cunliffe
Jazz selections based on Ravel’s work
Ravel Piano Concerto, second movement
Second Rhapsody, by George Gershwin (CSUF premiere)
https://artstickets.fullerton.edu/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent1642.html
Bill joins legendary drummer Joe LaBarbera and his quintet, featuring Clay Jenkins, tpt, Bob Sheppard, sax, and Jonathan Richards, bass
https://www.samfirstbar.com/
Bill joins legendary drummer Joe LaBarbera and his quintet, featuring Clay Jenkins, tpt, Bob Sheppard, sax, and Jonathan Richards, bass
https://www.samfirstbar.com/
Mina Choi, who was born in South Korea and has long been based in Southern California, is a talented pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. While she has been quite active during the past decade including performing at top clubs and a few jazz festivals, and working as an educator, Stories is her recording debut.
https://www.campusjax.com/entertainment/
Sunday, March 9, 2025
5:00 PM
Piedmont Piano Company1728 San Pablo AvenueOakland, CA, 94612 (map)
LIVE at Piedmont Piano Company
This concert is a world premiere of a number of works written by Bill Cunliffe for violinist Jeremy Cohen and the Quartet San Francisco. Bill has had a long relationship with Jeremy, having performed with him a number of times at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles in the ’90’s and ’00’s. These new pieces are for string quartet and piano, and all feature jazz improvisation, both by Bill and members of the quartet. Works performed include pieces composed by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, two of Bill’s main musical influences.
General Admission
$30 advanced / $35 at the door
We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advanced purchase is recommended. Masking is no longer required.
BILL CUNLIFFE
Bill Cunliffe is a jazz pianist, composer, and Grammy Award-winning arranger. He got his start playing and arranging for the great Buddy Rich, and was the 1989 winner of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he performed with the Clayton Brothers and the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra for ten years, and currently plays with the Joe La Barbera quintet (former drummer with Bill Evans). Cunliffe’s film work includes the score for “On the Shoulders of Giants,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s homage to the Harlem Rens basketball team of the 1920s and ’30s.
Cunliffe was awarded a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement for “West Side Story Medley,” on the album “Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson” (Resonance Records, 2009). His piano concerto, Overture, Waltz and Rondo, was nominated for a Grammy in 2012.
His latest releases are Cabin In The Sky”(2018), a duo project with the acclaimed harmonica artist Hendrik Meurkens, and two trio recordings, Sunset in Molokai (2019) and Border Widows Lament (2022) with NY-based bassist Martin Wind and drummer Tim Horner.
His music has been performed by the Flensburg (Germany) Symphony, the Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Middletown (OH) Symphony, the Temple University Symphony and the the Reading (PA) Symphony, among others.
In addition to his work as jazz studies professor at Cal State Fullerton, Cunliffe teaches at the Skidmore Jazz Institute and the Vail Jazz Workshop. Bill’s music can be found at billcunliffe.com and billcunliffe1.bandcamp.com
JEREMY COHEN
Jeremy Cohen‘s electrifying jazz violin performances have earned him nationwide accolades. Classically-trained and a student of Itzhak Perlman and Anne Crowden, Cohen’s eclectic style reflects his respect for a wide range of violinists from Perlman and Fritz Kreisler to Joe Venuti and Eddie South.
Cohen has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Virginia Symphony, the California Symphony and the Reno Philharmonic. His recording credits include motion picture and television soundtracks including “The Dukes of Hazzard” and Jane Fonda’s “Dollmaker,” and as concertmaster on recordings with Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Aaron Neville, Howard Keel and Cleo Laine. He appeared on Carlos Santana’s Grammy-winning CD “Supernatural” and the original “Star Wars” compilation CD with John Williams. On the stage he was the solo violinist in “Forever Tango” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and has toured and recorded with the 2006 Grammy winners, the Turtle Island String Quartet. jeremycohen.com
QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO
Jeremy Cohen founded the pioneering string group, Quartet San Francisco, and has toured extensively with the group throughout the United States, China, Japan, Italy, Germany, and South Korea since 2001. Quartet San Francisco was awarded the Grand Prize in the First International Tango Competition at the Argentine Consulate in New York in 2004. QSF’s CDs have garnered seven Grammy nominations since 2006 in the categories of Best Classical Crossover, Best Engineered Classical, and Best Instrumental Composition. Cohen composes and arranges for the group and is in demand as a composer/arranger for other ensembles as well, including the Marin Symphony, the Sun Valley Music Festival Bronfman Chamber Music Series, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Peninsula Symphony, the Reading Philharmonic, the Reno Philharmonic, the Del Sol String Quartet, the Bridge Virtuosi, and the San Francisco Symphony.
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Bill joins the legendary drummer Lewis Nash, and great young bassist Corcoran Holt for a night of music by jazz piano greats Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones and John Lewis, director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
One show, 7PM.
https://thenash.org/
6:30PM & 8:30PM
($30-$40 | 6:30pm & 8:30pm shows) The Tucson Latin Jazz Nonet is very excited to join forces with pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe! The Nonet has been performing Bill’s compositions and arrangements for years, so it will be extra special to get to perform them with him.
Bill Cunliffe (piano) Homero Cerón (vibraphone) Rick Peron (trumpet) Rob Boone (trombone) Jordan Robison (bass trombone) Chris Herald (sax) Colin McIlrath (bass) Arthur Vint (drums)
BILL CUNLIFFE
Jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known for his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. He has since established himself as a solo artist and bandleader, with more than a dozen albums under his name.
Bill currently plays with his trio; his big band; his Latin band, Imaginación; and his classical-jazz ensemble, Trimotif. He performs in the U.S. and around the world as a leader and sideman as well as a soloist with symphony orchestras.
www.hotelcongress.com
6:30PM
($20-$30 Tickets | 6:30pm Show) Grammy Award-winning arranger, composer, pianist and bandleader Bill Cunliffe makes his Century Room debut! This time, he will be joined by Scott Black (bass) and Arthur Vint (drums).
BILL CUNLIFFE
Jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known for his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. He has since established himself as a solo artist and bandleader, with more than a dozen albums under his name.
Bill currently plays with his trio; his big band; his Latin band, Imaginación; and his classical-jazz ensemble, Trimotif. He performs in the U.S. and around the world as a leader and sideman as well as a soloist with symphony orchestras.
www.hotelcongress.com
6:30PM
($20-$30 Tickets | 6:30pm Show) Grammy Award-winning arranger, composer, pianist and bandleader Bill Cunliffe makes his Century Room debut! This time, he will be joined by Scott Black (bass) and Arthur Vint (drums).
BILL CUNLIFFE
Jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known for his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. He has since established himself as a solo artist and bandleader, with more than a dozen albums under his name.
Bill currently plays with his trio; his big band; his Latin band, Imaginación; and his classical-jazz ensemble, Trimotif. He performs in the U.S. and around the world as a leader and sideman as well as a soloist with symphony orchestras.
www.hotelcongress.com
