Bill-McCrossen

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Over the past thirty years, Bill McCrossen has been in demand in the New York tristate area, recording and performing in orchestras, Broadway musicals, commercials and television productions. Bill has also been a professor of Jazz History studies at the Hartford Conservatory of Music and taught bass and jazz improvisation at Five Towns College in New York. Bill has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with such world class musicians as Michael and Randy Brecker, Clark Terry, Ray Anderson, Gene Bertoncini, Harold Mabern, Kenny Werner, Eliot Zigmund, Adam Nussbaum, Jerry Granelli, Marguerite Juenemann and Art Lande to name a few. Bill is also a member of the New York based free improvising quarter called "INNERrOUTe".

Having relocated in 2014, Bill now calls Colorado his home and is active in the Denver metro area Jazz and Brazilian music scene. He performs regularly at major festivals and venues such as Dazzle and Nocturne. Bill is excited to be involved in this vibrant and talented community of like-minded musicians with many original music projects and free improv ensembles where you might find Bill playing a variety of African instruments such as the Kamale Ngoni, Guembri, Mbira and Kora in addition to the upright and fretless electric bass.

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