Bill performs with his trio, Aaron Jacobs, bass, and Jim Leslie, drums, with the wonderful vocalist Kathy Wade.

Two Emmy nominations attest to her virtuosity as a jazz vocalist and entertainer. Kathy Wade has toured internationally and has opened for legendary artists Shirley Horn, Nancy Wilson, and Al Jarreau. Off-stage, the Xavier University and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music graduate co-founded the non-profit Learning Through Art. Bill and Kathy collaborated on an album in 1990, “Spice of Life.”

https://www.caffevivace.com/

Bill performs originals, standards, and highlighting the music of Bud Powell, the great innovator of bebop. (Bill had a well received album in 1994 called “Bill Plays Bud”). Aaron Jacobs is on bass, and Jim Leslie is on drums. Shows at 7 and 9.

https://tickets.caffevivace.com/

Bill plays standards and classic jazz arrangements with Ahmet Turkmoglu, Bob Sheppard, Kristopher Bergh, Ivan Malespin and others.

Bill plays and teaches at a solo piano event as part of the Concordia University Piano Festival in Irvine, CA

https://www.cui.edu/arts/music/events/summer-piano-music-festival

Bill, Todd and Tim perform music of Bud Powell from Bill’s celebrated album “Bill Plays Bud” on Naxox Records, at Mezzrow, in NYC. Shows 7:30 and 9:30.

163 West 10th Street - basement
New York City, New York 
10014 USA

A unique evening of jazz, featuring the poetry of Robert Pinsky.

Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015 the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life.

Skidmore Faculty All-Stars

Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 pm at the Arthur Zankel Music Center. This concert is free and open to the public, no pre-registration is required. Doors open at 7 pm.

Skidmore Jazz Institute Faculty All-Stars featuring Clay Jenkins (trumpet), Steve Wilson (saxophone), Steve Davis (trombone), Dave Stryker (guitar), Bill Cunliffe (piano), Todd Coolman (bass) and Dennis Mackrel, drums

Skidmore Faculty All-Stars

Thursday, July 11, 7:30 pm at the Arthur Zankel Music Center. This concert is free and open to the public, no pre-registration is required. Doors open at 7 pm.

Skidmore Jazz Institute Faculty All-Stars featuring Brian Lynch (trumpet), Jimmy Greene (saxophone), Sara Jacovino (trombone), Dave Stryker (guitar), Bill Cunliffe (piano), Todd Coolman (bass) and Dennis Mackrel, drums

Charles R. Wood Discovery Stage

• 11:30AM – Skidmore Jazz Institute Faculty All-Stars Centennial Celebration of Max Roach, Bud Powell & J.J. Johnson featuring Clay Jenkins, Steve Wilson, Steve Davis, Mike Moreno, Bill Cunliffe, Todd Coolman & Dennis Mackrel

https://spac.org/events/2024-freihofers-saratoga-jazz-festival-sunday/

Bill performs with Maria Puga Lareo and saxophonist Bob Sheppard at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave, Pasadena.

https://www.mariapugalareo.com/

https://allsaints-pas.org/

Bill reunites with Darek Oles, bass, and Kevin Kanner, drums playing the music of Bud Powell, and standards at this wonderful venue in San Diego with great Mexican food. Sunday June 16, 5-7 pm

https://www.tioleos.com/

+1 619 542 1462

Bill directs the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra at CSUF with the great jazz mandolinist Eva Scow, and guest conductor Mina Choi.

https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/music/

The Prisoner is the seventh Herbie Hancock album, recorded in 1969 and released in January 1970 for the Blue Note label, his final project for the label before moving to Warner Bros. Records. It is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated the previous year. It features some of Herbie’s most interesting and challenging compositions.

Bill will perform this music with a great lineup of Clay Jenkins, trumpet, Bob Sheppard and Rob Lockart, saxes and woodwinds, Lamar Guillary, trombone, Kevin Kanner, drums and Darek Oles, bass. This is a vespers service at All Saints Church, Pasadena, and is open to the public. Admission is free. There will be a good will offering taken.

https://allsaints-pas.org/

Bill Cunliffe, a graduate of Duke University and the Eastman School of Music,  is a jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger. The 1989 winner of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, he performs around the world as a leader and sideman and as a soloist with symphony orchestra.

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).

Cunliffe has more than a dozen albums under his name. Recent recordings include a tribute to children’s music, “Playground Swing” (Metre Records, 2015) the Bill Cunliffe Trio’s “River Edge, New Jersey” (Azica Records, 2013) and Overture, Waltz and Rondo for jazz piano, trumpet and orchestra (BCM+D Records, 2012), which won Cunliffe his fifth Grammy nomination, for Best Instrumental Composition. “That Time of Year” (Metre Records, 2011), an album of solo improvisations on Christmas carols that was described as a “tour de force” in the Los Angeles Times.

After working with Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra, he performed and toured with the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, the Clayton Brothers Quintet, vocalists Marlena Shaw and Natalie Cole, and in duo with flutist Holly Hofmann for over ten years.

Bill plays with the great drummer Joe La Barbera’s quintet, featuring Clay Jenkins, trumpet, Bob Sheppard, saxophone and Jonathan Richards, bass.

Sam First Jazz Bar

6171 W CENTURY BLVD #180, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045

https://www.samfirstbar.com/

Bill plays with the great drummer Joe La Barbera’s quintet, featuring Clay Jenkins, trumpet, Bob Sheppard, saxophone and Jonathan Richards, bass.

Sam First Jazz Bar

6171 W CENTURY BLVD #180, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045

https://www.samfirstbar.com/

Bill brings his trio with Kevin Kanner on drums and Edwin Livingston on bass to the wonderful Salon on Buffalo series produced by actor/vocalist Susan Krebs

ADM: $25 

via VENMO

or CASH/CHECK @ Door 

Includes Libations & Tasty Bites

LIMITED Seating -- Reservations Required

Valley Glen Address Given with Reservation

RESERVE HERE: suze@susankrebsmusic.com

Bill plays with two of his favorite young musicians, drummer Kevin Kanner, and bassist Jonathan Richards. Two shows. Libretto in his opinion is “one of the best and friendliest clubs in the world.”

https://www.librettopaso.com/events

Charismatic jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling takes the stage with vocalist Sydney McSweeney, alongside our symphony, for a thrilling performance of jazz standards by Gershwin and more. Every selection on this vibrant program was recorded by Louis Armstrong—and many were also recorded (and made famous by!) his friends and legendary singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. Bill accompanies them with his trio.

https://pittsburghsymphony.org/

Charismatic jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling takes the stage with vocalist Sydney McSweeney, alongside our symphony, for a thrilling performance of jazz standards by Gershwin and more. Every selection on this vibrant program was recorded by Louis Armstrong—and many were also recorded (and made famous by!) his friends and legendary singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. Bill accompanies them with his trio.

https://pittsburghsymphony.org/

Charismatic jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling takes the stage with vocalist Sydney McSweeney, alongside our symphony, for a thrilling performance of jazz standards by Gershwin and more. Every selection on this vibrant program was recorded by Louis Armstrong—and many were also recorded (and made famous by!) his friends and legendary singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. Bill accompanies them with his trio.

https://pittsburghsymphony.org/

The Prisoner is the seventh Herbie Hancock album, recorded in 1969 and released in January 1970 for the Blue Note label, his final project for the label before moving to Warner Bros. Records. It is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated the previous year. It features some of Herbie’s most interesting and challenging compositions.

Bill will perform this music with a great lineup of Clay Jenkins, trumpet, Bob Sheppard and Rob Lockart, saxes and woodwinds, Lamar Guillary, trombone, Kevin Kanner, drums and Darek Oles, bass.

https://www.samfirstbar.com/

Bill Cunliffe, a graduate of Duke University and the Eastman School of Music,  is a jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning arranger. The 1989 winner of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, he performs around the world as a leader and sideman and as a soloist with symphony orchestra.

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).

Cunliffe has more than a dozen albums under his name. Recent recordings include a tribute to children’s music, “Playground Swing” (Metre Records, 2015) the Bill Cunliffe Trio’s “River Edge, New Jersey” (Azica Records, 2013) and Overture, Waltz and Rondo for jazz piano, trumpet and orchestra (BCM+D Records, 2012), which won Cunliffe his fifth Grammy nomination, for Best Instrumental Composition. “That Time of Year” (Metre Records, 2011), an album of solo improvisations on Christmas carols that was described as a “tour de force” in the Los Angeles Times.

After working with Buddy Rich and Frank Sinatra, he performed and toured with the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, the Clayton Brothers Quintet, vocalists Marlena Shaw and Natalie Cole, and in duo with flutist Holly Hofmann for over ten years.

Bill directs the Fullerton Jazz Orchestra at CSUF with guest trumpeter Julien Knowles

Opening will be the Chamber Jazz Orchestra directed by Rodolfo Zuniga

https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/music/

https://www.julienknowles.com/about