Bill ( 30.11.1949) started his jazz playing career while still in high school by playing with various bads in the Washington, D.C. area. He also sat in with his father's group at the famous Georgetown club " Blues Alley" where he played with artist such as Zoot Simms, Al Cohn, clark Tery, Urbie Green, milt Jackson and others.

While studying with the great Emory Remington at the eastman School of music in Rochester, N.Y., Bill played with many other jazz artist. He was also the featured jazz trombonist with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble.
After graduation, Bill joined the Buddy Rich band. He was immediately featured because of his ability to play jazz on the bass trombone. Buddy's recording of "Wave" on the "Stick it" album features Bill.
In 1975, Bill moved to L.A. were he started playing the jazz tenor trombone chair on Toshiko Akiyoshi's big band. He made quite a few albums with the band over the next several years and was featured soloist on all of them. At the same time, Bill was also the solo jazz trombone player on Don Menza's big band and he recorded solos on an album with the band. Don put together a sextet out of the big band and featured Bill on tenor and bass trombone on a recording with the band.
As a studio player, Bill has played on about 500 recordings, 300-400 motion pictures, and countless TV shows and jingles. Bill's jazz quartet album featuring Peter Erskine on drums, Jimmy Johnson on bass, and Biff Hannon on piano, reached number 10 on the national jazz radio play list and is much requested.
Bill was a featured artist and clinician at the 1997 International Trombone Festival in Urbana, Illinois.
Some of the artist Bill has recorded with are: Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Toto, The Yellow jackets, Seawind, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, David Foster, Aretha Franklin, A Jarreau, Earth, Wind and Fire, Dr. John, Arrow smith and Ray Charles.
Bill is now an Artist clinician for C.G.Conn-Selmer. He has given master classes and clinics throughout the United states, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. As a writer and arranger, Bill has worked on records for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Dr. Jones, Diana Ross and Others.  He has arranged many HBO special themes and composed the theme for Fox's animated series "Peter Pan & the pirates" as well as much of the underscoring.
He contributed to such films and shows as "Licorice Pizza", "I love trouble", Frank's Place", Baby Boom", "Brand new life", "Snoops",
Teen Wolf", and the special "Cartoon All-stars to the rescue".
Bill composed the main title for a series of Kurt Vonnegut stories called " Welcome to the monkey house" for show time