Jazz pianist, composer, and Grammy Award-winning arranger Bill Cunliffe is known his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, and James Moody. He has since established himself as a solo artist and bandleader. Bill is a winner of the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition and has received stipends from the National Endowment for the Arts.