BILL CUNLIFFE

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Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Bill Cunliffe is widely known for his swinging and lyrical pianism and his creativity and invention as a composer and arranger of jazz. He graduated from Duke University and the Eastman School of Music, where he won several Down Beat Awards. After graduation, he taught at Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio. His first major jazz gig was pianist and arranger with Buddy Rich, touring Europe with Frank Sinatra. He later performed with Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Woody Shaw and James Moody.

Bill was the 1989 winner of the $10,000 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Award, and has received stipends from the National Endowment for the Arts. A number of his jazz instructional books are published by Alfred Publications, his big band compositions are published by Kendor Music and Otter Music, and his choral music
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BILL CUNLIFFE Bill Cunliffe & Friends : A Paul Simon Songbook album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bill Cunliffe & Friends : A Paul Simon Songbook
Pop/Art Song/Folk 1993
BILL CUNLIFFE A Rare Connection album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Rare Connection
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1994
BILL CUNLIFFE Bill in Brazil album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bill in Brazil
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1995
BILL CUNLIFFE Bill Plays Bud album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bill Plays Bud
Post Bop 1998
BILL CUNLIFFE Satisfaction album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Satisfaction
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1998
BILL CUNLIFFE Viva Mexico, Romantic Fantasy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Viva Mexico, Romantic Fantasy
Third Stream 1999
BILL CUNLIFFE Bill Cunliffe with the Rodger Fox Big Band : Warriors album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bill Cunliffe with the Rodger Fox Big Band : Warriors
Big Band 2001
BILL CUNLIFFE It's About Love album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
It's About Love
Post Bop 2003
BILL CUNLIFFE How My Heart Sings album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
How My Heart Sings
Post Bop 2003
BILL CUNLIFFE Imaginación album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Imaginación
Latin Jazz 2005
BILL CUNLIFFE Enchanted Journey album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Enchanted Journey
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2005
BILL CUNLIFFE Transformation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Transformation
Third Stream 2008
BILL CUNLIFFE The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Take 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Blues and the Abstract Truth: Take 2
Big Band 2008
BILL CUNLIFFE Bill Cunliffe and David Kreisberg : A Different Road album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bill Cunliffe and David Kreisberg : A Different Road
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009
BILL CUNLIFFE Three's Company album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Three's Company
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2010
BILL CUNLIFFE That Time of Year album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
That Time of Year
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2011
BILL CUNLIFFE Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011
BILL CUNLIFFE River Edge, New Jersey album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
River Edge, New Jersey
Post Bop 2013
BILL CUNLIFFE Playground Swing album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Playground Swing
Pop/Art Song/Folk 2015
BILL CUNLIFFE BACHanalia album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
BACHanalia
Third Stream 2017
BILL CUNLIFFE Christmas In The Dog House album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Christmas In The Dog House
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2019
BILL CUNLIFFE Sunrise Over Molokai album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sunrise Over Molokai
Post Bop 2019
BILL CUNLIFFE Symphony for Winds album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Symphony for Winds
Third Stream 2021
BILL CUNLIFFE Border Window's Lament album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Border Window's Lament
Post Bop 2023

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BILL CUNLIFFE Live at Bernie's album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Bernie's
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001
BILL CUNLIFFE Live at Rocco album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Rocco
Hard Bop 2002

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