(Hard Bop, Post-Bop) Bill Cunliffe - Коллекция - 1994-2008 (3 альбома), MP3, 320 kbps

Bill Cunliffe (b. June 26, 1956) is an American jazz pianist and composer based in Los Angeles.
Grammy nominated composer, arranger and jazz pianist Bill Cunliffe is gathering nationwide attention with his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions He first fell under the influence of jazz by studying at Duke University with the great pianist Mary Lou Williams. He received his masters from the Eastman School of Music, and won several Down Beat Awards for his big band and orchestral pieces.
After teaching at Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio, he toured as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band, and working with Frank Sinatra. He then played and toured with many legends of jazz, including Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, James Moody, and Joshua Redman. Currently, he plays with his own trio, his group Imaginacion, and duets with the great jazz flutist Holly Hofmann, with whom he has recorded five CD's.
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. His three albums for Warner/Discovery Records all charted in nationwide jazz polls. His books “Jazz Keyboard Toolbox,“ and “Jazz Piano Inventions” published by Alfred Publications, are fast becoming standard reference books in jazz, and his big band compositions are published by Kendor Music, and the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press. His choral music is published by Santa Barbera Music Publishers. Bill is a Baldwin Pianos artist, and was Marian McPartland's guest on her famed “Piano Jazz” radio show in June '98.
As a composer and arranger, Bill has been performed by many orchestras, including the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic, the Reading (PA) Symphony, and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra. Among his works are a three movement “Romantic” Fantasy for piano and orchestra, a festive overture, “Viva Mexico,” and numerous works for big band, orchestra, and choir. Recently, the Rodger Fox Big Band of New Zealand released a CD of Bill's jazz orchestra compositions. He is currently composer in residence at All Saints Episcopal Church, in Pasadena, California, and Assistant Professor of Music at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance, at Temple University.
On the classical side, he performs his own distinctive arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” with orchestras, and performs with his group Trimotif, which he co leads with oboist Phoebe Ray, and featuring David Shostac on flute, often featuring his own works.
Bill's latest projects include a groundbreaking audiophile recording, “Live at Bernies”, with bassist Darek Oles and drummer Joe La Barbera done both to enhanced CD and to 12 inch/ 45 rpm vinyl at the famous Bernie Grundman mastering facility in Hollywood for the Groove Note label. In addition, his latest, which spent a month in the #2 position in the JazzWeek radio polls is Imaginacion an album featuring his Latin Jazz Nonet, on Torii Records. The arrangement “Do It Again” on the CD was nominated for a Grammy in 2006.

Bill Cunliffe - A Rare Connection
Год издания диска: 1994
Продолжительность: 55:22
Треклист:
01. Stella by Starlight (Young) - 5:34
02. Chick It Out (Cunliffe) - 4:42
03. Jamaican Lounge Lizards (Cunliffe) - 5:31
04. Cityscape (Cunliffe) - 6:27
05. A Rare Connection (Cunliffe) - 4:11
06. The Big Slide (Cunliffe) - 6:32
07. Joyous Dance (Cunliffe) - 5:50
08. Minnesota (Cunliffe) - 4:29
09. Miyako (Shorter) - 4:50
10. Nobody Else But Me (Kern) - 7:16
Состав:
Bill Cunliffe - piano, keyboards
Bob Sheppard - saxophone, bass clarinet
Clay Jenkins - trumpet, flugelhorn
Bruce Paulson - trombone
Dave Carpenter - bass
Peter Erskine - drums
Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, CA on June 19, 1993.

Bill Cunliffe - Bill Plays Bud
#777Год издания диска: 1996
Продолжительность: 61:11
Треклист:
01. Melancholia (Cunliffe) - 6:17
02. Un Poco Loco (Powell) - 5:27
03. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Van Heusen) - 8:50
04. Comin' Up (Powell) - 4:26
05. Hallucinations (Powell) - 6:06
06. Tempus Fugit (Powell) - 3:47
07. Sure Thing (Kern) - 4:50
08. 52nd Street Theme (Gillespie-Paparelli-Powell) - 6:02
09. Borderick (Powell) - 3:51
10. Dusk at Saudi (Powell) - 3:10
11. Willowgrove (Powell) - 4:18
12. Glass Enclosure (Powell) - 4:07
Состав:
Bill Cunliffe - piano, leader
Ralph Moore - tenor saxophone
Dave Carpenter - acoustic bass
Joe La Barbera - drums
Papo Rodriguez - percussion
Recorded at Mad Hatter Recording, Los Angeles, CA on October 24, 1996.

Bill Cunliffe - The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Take 2
#777Год издания диска: 2008
Продолжительность: 48:42
Треклист:
01. Stolen Moments (Nelson) - 7:04
02. Hoe Down (Nelson) - 4:47
03. Cascades (Nelson) - 4:53
04. Yearnin' (Nelson) - 7:06
05. Butch and Butch (Nelson) - 4:41
06. Teenie's Blues (Nelson) - 6:26
07. Port Authority (Cunliffe) - 6:29
08. Mary Lou's Blues (Cunliffe) - 7:16
Состав:
Bill Cunliffe - piano, arranger
Terell Stafford - guest soloist, trumpet
Jeff Clayton - guest soloist, alto saxophone
Andy Martin - trombone
Bob Sheppard - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Brian Scanlon - alto saxophone
Larry Lunetta - trumpet
Tom Warrington - bass
Mark Ferber - drums