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Bill was nominated as “Best Jazz Performer” in the 2012 New England Music Awards, the winner of the 2008 Dimock Center’s Steppin’ Out music competition where he performed long side Lalah Hathaway, Monty Alexander, Andre Ward, and Esperanza Spaulding. He also placed first in OurStage.com’s March JVC Newport Jazz Festival competition in 2009 and the 2009Independent Music Awards in the Ringtone Category.

His music is available on iTunes, Pandora, Napster, Amazon and Rhapsody, and has been featured on WGBH FM’s Jazz Gallery, WFNX Sunday Brunch,Kickin' Back with Kathleen on www.wnbp.com or AM1450 WNBP, WATD’s ‘round Midnight, PIXY103 FM, Exploit Boston Radio, and Radio Fly 1.

Originally from Troy, New York, Bill started playing keyboards by ear at age 15 when two of his closest friends received a drum set and a guitar for Christmas gifts. “My friends started to woodshed in their pool house and when I went over to check it out, I was immediately hooked! I had to be part of this!”

Bill devoured everything by ear; taping songs and solos and wood shedding until he got it. He convinced the pastor of the local St. Jude Catholic Church to allow him to practice on the church's big Hammond B3. “The nuns would chase me away,but the pastor was cool with it. I’d go in when the church was empty and start wailing on Santana solos, filling the church with that rich sound,” says Bill.

Bill’s work and great ears quickly earned him an audition with a popular club band. Being self-taught, Bill spent years picking up everything he could from the wide variety of the players he worked with, including jazz standards, jazz fusion,reggae, Southern rock, blues, alternative rock and Latin styles.

“My first real gig was in a club on Troy's then undeveloped Hudson River waterfront,called Sutter’s Mining Company. I had just landed a gig with a seven piece band named Stage where the seven of us split the cover charges from the door.” Stage lasted in the greater Albany/Troy/Syracuse area until a breakup in '78, then transformed into a band called Click. Click was a high-energy band that toured extensively and at one time opened for Spyro Gyra as well as Santana. The well-rehearsed,tight cover band performed all the great late ‘70s material from Tower of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears and the like. Bill was rocking the band out with his powerhouse vocals and keyboard skills from the late ‘70s to the early ‘80s.

In 1981,Bill moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music where he studied with well-known, highly regarded musicians such as pianist Bob Winter,pianist/arranger Ray Santisi, trumpet player Greg Hopkins and trombonist/arranger/bandleader Phil Wilson. Graduating Cum Laude in 1983, Bill launched his own band with original songs and played around Boston in well-known music haunts like Bunratty’s, The Channel, T.T. The Bear’s, The Middle East and Upstairs at Ryles. His group, Little Alex, with its original brand of pop/jazz/fusion with vocals had promises of landing a record deal. At the same time, Bill was also teaching music and still doing an IT gig until his job required him to travel, making it impossible for him to continue performing.

When Bill returned to the New England scene in 2005, his new band was hot enough to open for the legendary James Cotton, James Montgomery’s Blues Band, and showcased at Provincetown Rocks festival, the Old Iron Spring Festival in Saratoga, NY, the Yankee Homecoming Festival in Newburyport,MA and the Atlantis Music Festival, the largest music festival in the Southeast US. He has been voted as best keyboardist 16 times by Garageband.com, and been chosen top 500 in the 2009 Billboard Magazine’s Songwriters list and Honorable Mention in the Magazine’s 2006, 2008 and 2009 songwriting lists.

Bill self-released his first full solo CD in 2007 titled, Water’s Edge, referring to the scenic area where he lives--Winthrop, Massachusetts, overlooking the harbor and Boston's amazing skyline. In 2009 Bill released his CD entitled Bounce,celebrating Bill’s full “bounce back to his first love, music.” A new release is expected in late 2013.