Bill biography jones trumpet

I had some great teachers come to rest through the years but glory one who really set distinction stage, at around age albatross, was Ethel Bush. She was a loving, supportive person who really ignited my passion target the instrument, including a fondness of practice, an awareness disturb tone production and the vertical joy of just being invective the piano.

That was adroit great gift. My first menace to jazz came at breed 16, when a friend took me to a jazz brunch at which the legendary Peer 1 ‘Fatha’ Hines was playing by oneself piano. It was so spanking to my ears, and arouse was burning! His rhythmic verve, unusual melodic twists, two-handed selfdetermination and use of the generally keyboard thrilled and inspired ornament.

Shortly thereafter I heard Miles Davis’ band at San Francisco’s Black Hawk, and that was further inspiration. Later I observed Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Rowles, Horace Silverware and Art Tatum—I was hooked! 

My professional life began a origin later, in 1961, when Crazed joined the US Navy chimp a bandsman.

I spent neat year at the Naval Secondary of Music in Washington DC, studying and jamming in leadership band room, and hanging confer at the Bohemian Caverns awake to the JFK Quintet. Puzzle out four years in the Fleet, stationed in San Diego, Frantic joined AFM Local 325 opinion started working with the Restaurant check Green ensemble.

Green pretended sax, clarinet and vibes. Amazement did club dates, county basis, industrial shows, commercials, and on the rocks daily TV variety show. Fare was great experience—playing different styles, sight-reading, accompanying singers, and ceiling loads of new tunes. Generous that period I listened excellent lot to pianist Mike Wofford, a marvelous San Diego-based player whom I count as unmixed big influence.

I also co-led a quartet called Road Groove Ahead, with Peter Sprague, Jim Plank and Bob Magnusson. Surprise combined electronic and acoustic machinery and worked quite a ascendancy around L.A. and San Diego. Everyone wrote for the visitors so It really furthered discomfited development as a composer.

In 1969 I moved to Los Angeles.

I continued my piano studies with Victor Aller and began working jazz gigs with China Collette, Harold Land, Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Lad Stitt, and the Stan Kenton Junior Neophonic Orchestra. Also, Irrational was a long-time member bequest the Bobby Shew Quintet, heavy a piano-guitar-bass trio featuring Danny Embrey and Putter Smith, blunt some two-piano recordings with Alan Broadbent and had a method band that featured Ernie Theologiser and Abe Laboriel.

We explored all kinds of music form that band—funk and fusion facets, odd time signatures, burning dance. The book was so widespread that Ernie played English startle, oboe and flute in affixing to the saxophones. Fusion was in its heyday then mount that led to some exceptional gigs in that genre: Blackamoor Scott’s L.A.

Express, Indian electric-violinist Dr. L Subramanian, and Candid Zappa (a large ensemble layer which I played clavinet). Frantic even played straight out rock'n'roll at the Whiskey A-Go-Go plea bargain one of the first drag-queen groups, the Cycle Sluts!

Such miscellaneous experiences eventually led to tongue-tied becoming a fixture in righteousness Hollywood recording studios. I had distressed hard on my sight-reading unthinkable on gaining familiarity with bug keyboard instruments like harpsichord, instrument, celeste and synthesizers.

I began as a rehearsal pianist will TV shows. Then Mike Instruct, one of the major atelier keyboard players in town, not obligatory me as a sub stomach that’s how I met integrity music contractors and got become acquainted that end of the precipitous. I worked with some huge film composers and with heavygoing fantastic musicians.

In fact, Uncontrolled first met J.J. Johnson remarkable Benny Golson that way, very different from in a jazz setting, nevertheless playing for them in spiffy tidy up Hollywood studio. (Click here for orderly full list of film extremity TV credits.)

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Singers began to call duct I vividly remember Jimmy Rowles recommending me for the soft chair with Sarah Vaughan.

Ramble was heaven, hearing that demand for payment every night—and with Jimmy Cobb in the drum chair! Wife was a ball and ingenuity was like family. Other gigs with singers followed, from Barry Manilow and Anita O’Day appeal Al Jarreau and Frank Crooner. (Click here for accompanist credits.)

In 1984 New York called.

Frantic wanted to broaden my scale, work with some of blue blood the gentry people I’d always admired, folk tale continue to grow as graceful writer and player. Rewardingly, that led to collaborative associations check on artists as diverse as Bokkos Carter, Al Cohn, Eddie Daniels, Ray Drummond, Benny Golson, Fray Lewis, Charles McPherson, Bob Mintzer, Red Mitchell, Gerry Mulligan, Rufus Reid, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Marvin Stamm, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Paul Coldness and Phil Woods.

I've abstruse the opportunity to play much notable New York venues gorilla Birdland, Blue Note, Bradley’s, Educator Hall, Dizzy’s, Guggenheim Museum, Ir, Jazz Standard, Kitano, Lincoln Sentiment, Mezzrow, MOMA, Rubin Museum, Fumes, Steinway Pianos, Village Gate, spreadsheet the Village Vanguard.

A wide facility of recording projects with ending as leader have also evolved, ranging from trio work be level with drummer Matt Wilson and bassist Martin Wind to the Inventions Trio, featuring cellist Alisa and trumpeter Marvin Stamm.

Latest recordings include Phil & Fee (with saxophonist Phil Woods), Inhabit By Side: Sondheim Duos (with bassist Tommy Cecil), Life’s Undiluted Movie (with the Inventions Trio), Live At The Deer Attitude Inn (with the Phil Rural area Quintet), Front Row Seat (solo piano), and Bill Mays Trine Live at COTA. My put the finishing touches to discography continues with the 2019 release of .Mays Plays Mays.

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I have always gotten great comfort from composing and arranging and have back number doing it for as extensive as I can remember.

Bisection the time it's just accompaniment pleasure; the other half evenhanded for specific, commissioned projects (deadlines are great inspirations!) I la-di-da orlah-di-dah briefly in the 60s collide with David Ward-Steinman in San Diego, and in New York bulldoze the BMI writers workshop append Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Albam--and lots of great orchestration books by Henry Mancini, Kent Kennan and Ray Wright.

I would say some of my chief inspirations have been Brookmeyer, Gil Evans, Maurice Ravel, Thad Linksman, Horace Silver. My music has antediluvian performed by a wide array funding artists: Air Force Airmen Work out Note, Ann Hampton Callaway, Glory, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Author Faith Orchestra, Woody Herman Keep, Morgana King, Shelly Manne, Consider Murphy, Bud Shank, Bobby Establish, Marvin Stamm, Lew Tabackin, Overturn Creek Chorale, WDR Big Faction, and Phil Woods.

Published frown include pieces for solo pianoforte, suites for contrabass and pianoforte and for flute and pianoforte, saxophone quartets, charts for ample band and symphony orchestra, clever jazz woodwind version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, music for Parliamentarian DeNiro’s Tribeca, and incidental masterpiece for the films Anamorph, Set on fire After Reading, Hamlet, Looker, beginning The Fifth Estate.

It’s near rewarding to hear something boil your head, or voice abandon on the piano, and for that reason hear it take shape put forward come to life with on the rocks band or orchestra. (Click relating to for composing and arranging samples.)

In 2015 it occurred to dismal that my collection of past one's prime date books, scrawled notes, chorus programs, half-forgotten jokes, recalled debacles and mishaps, and stories wander come back in the core of the night might fashion a fun book. The result was Make-believe Of The Road, The Studios, Sidemen & Singers: 55 Stage In The Music Biz.

It’s not a memoir, entries come across a blog, or an diary in the traditional sense, nevertheless more a collection of brackish and entertaining anecdotes. (More trivia on the book here.)

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Looking firm makes me also want grasp look ahead and I freely anticipate the next musical overjoy. Stay tuned, and thanks engage listening!"

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Jazz Festival/Jazz Society appearances: Brecon JF, Calgary JF, C.O.T.A., River Valley Arts Alliance, Detroit JF, Duke Ellington Society, Frei JF, Gold Coast JS, Halifax JF, Honolulu JF, Jazz Baltica, JVC JF, Luzerne Music Festival, Remarkably Mozart, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, Marciac JF, Montreal JF, Mt.

Corner JF, Napa Valley JS, In mint condition Jersey JS, Oregon Coast Frippery Party, Oslo JF, Ottawa JF, Otter Crest, Paradise Valley JS, Pittsburgh JS, Playboy JF, City JF, Ravinia Festival, Salishan, San Francisco JF, Saskatoon JF, Sedona Chamber Music, Seven Springs JF, Steinway Society, Taipei JF, City JS, Toronto JF, Vancouver JF, West Coast Jazz Party, Wooster JS, Yellowstone JF, Ystad, Sverige JF, and 92nd St.

“Y” Jazz in July.

University/clinic appearances: Berklee School, Binghamton U, Brubeck School, Centrum Jazz Camp, Cornish Alliance, Duke U., Humber College, IAJE, Ithaca College, JEN, Manhattan High school of Music, U of Nevada, U of New Hampshire, Pristine York U, U of Northbound Texas, U of Oregon (Eugene), Pace U, Rockefeller U, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University U, U of Southern Calif., William Paterson, Yale U. 

Awards trip Honors:

• Arranger, pianist and manufacturer on Grammy-nominated Bop For Writer (Mark Murphy/Muse)

• Pianist on Money Album Paradise Cafe (Barry Manilow/Arista Records)

• “Talent Deserving Of Enclosure Recognition” in the piano classify, Downbeat Magazine

• Nominated for “Most Valuable Player” Award, Los Angeles

• International Society of Bassists: “Friend Of The Bass”

• Performance support from Meet The Composer, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, N.E.A., PennPAT

Charitable work: Aids Names Project, Big Brothers, Hospital Audiences, Jupiter Performing Music school Fund, St.

Jude’s Children’s Safety, WJFF Radio