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Bill Harrison

Bill Harrison created the innovative jazz education website http://www.playjazznow.com. This site offers the world's only downloadable play along (or backing) tracks for all musicians and vocalists.

Bill is a graduate of DePaul University, and has been a performer, teacher and clinician for nearly thirty years. Jazz credits include work with Clark Terry, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Kenny Burrell, Frank Wess, Bunky Green, Woody Herman Band, Joe Daley and many others. Bill has worked extensively in the Chicago theater, both in the pit and onstage as a musician and actor. Credits include the long running Always...Patsy Cline, Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, Singin' In The Rain, Scrooge, Peter Pan, Sweet Charity and the world premieres of The Visit and Bounce at Goodman Theatre. He is a frequent sub on the Chicago production of Wicked.

Bill's teaching experience includes private lessons and coaching jazz ensembles at the American Conservatory of Music and at Chicago State University. As a clinician, he spent many summers at Clark Terry's Great Plains Jazz Camp, taught at the Saskatchewan Summer School for the Arts and did a week of master classes at the Montreux Jazz Festival as a member of the Bunky Green Quartet.

Tags

Primary Instrument

Bass

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mood Swings

Unknown label
2005

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Videos

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