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Bill Pierce (saxophonist)

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Music group
  
The Jazz Messengers

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Movies
  
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard

Albums
  
One for Chuck, Introducing John Swana, Album of the Year, Moanin', Art Blakey's Jazz Messeng

Bill Pierce (also Billy Pierce) (born September 25, 1948 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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He played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams's quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He also has released numerous CDs for which he is the band leader.

He studied with Joe Viola and Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music, and with Joe Allard. He is the school's woodwind department chair.

As sideman

With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

  • Live at Montreux and Northsea (Timeless, 1980)
  • Art Blakey in Sweden (Amigo, 1981)
  • Album of the Year (Timeless, 1981)
  • Straight Ahead (Concord Jazz, 1981)
  • Keystone 3 (Concord Jazz, 1982)
  • Oh-By the Way (Timeless, 1982)

    • With Superblue

  • Superblue (1988, Blue Note)

    • With Tony Williams

  • Civilization (Blue Note, 1987)
  • Angel Street (Blue Note, 1988)
  • Native Heart (Blue Note, 1990)
  • The Story of Neptune (Blue Note, 1992)
  • Tokyo Live (Blue Note, 1992)

    • Songs

    I Remember CliffordMoanin' · 1958
    Are You RealMoanin' · 1958
    Along Came BettyMoanin' · 1958

    References

    Bill Pierce (saxophonist) Wikipedia
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