American Music Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Bill Cunliffe, Jim Ferguson, Neil Strauss, Sean Wilentz, Alvin Lucier, John Franklin Botume, Jerry Silverman, Bill Simon, Samuel Charters, Fred Bronson, Jacob Eisenberg, David Hall, David Hurwitz, John Bohlinger, Donald Nally, Dana Jennings, Rebeca Mauleon, Fiona Ritchie, Richie Unterberger, Richard Miller, William Gay, Fred Sokolow, M. Owen Lee, Len Brown, George D. Hay, Stefan Zucker, Lil Weavah, Verna Arvey, Murray M. Silver, Jr., Michael Steinberg, Lee Richey, HP Newquist, Paul Tanner, Joe Cole, Angela Myles Beeching, Joel Hamilton, Bill Martin, Theodore Levin, Don Kent, Mark Rotella, Ron Kuivila, Steve Propes, Frances Aparicio, Charles Wyatt, Edward Jablonski, Susan Youens, William Arms Fisher, Paul Garon, David H. Rosenthal, Carter Alan. Excerpt: Bill Cunliffe (b. June 26, 1956) is an American jazz pianist and composer based in Los Angeles who is notable for achieving numerous Grammy and Emmy awards. He has been described by The New York Times as being in the "modern jazz mainstream" and as an "accomplished pianist and composer." Ernie Rideout of Keyboard Magazine described Cunliffe's playing as "inventive, melodic, and soulful." He has written books on jazz for Alfred Publications, and teaches at California State University. Cunliffe was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He explained in an interview with All About Jazz writer Fred Jung: My mother was a good pianist and she had a piano at home. My dad played the phonograph all the time. So there was music in the house all the time. I started just copying little things that I would hear my mom play and I would sit next to her and listen. I was very fascinated with it. ... When I was a kid, I was listening mostly to classical music because my dad had a lot of it in the house. I listened to all the stuff that was on the radio in the Sixties and Seventies. The stuff...