Bill King Music is a comprehensive guide through the professional music ventures and world of musician Bill King.
It's a career that began in 1961 just as the big band era was winding down and rock & roll was moving to the forefront.
This was a great period undergoing change and many of the players of the era embraced new sounds - advancing recording techniques and the potential of musical hybrids.
King believes music should stay contemporary and adapt to the world around. "Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock were never rigid - always surveyed the landscape with a keen eye and listened to the heart beat of the planet. I listen to everything with an ear for adaptation."
Today it's singers Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lizz Wright and others who have found a way to either revive the past and make it relevent or inject themselves into the rhythm and soul of distant places and the fertile ground around them creating something new from something old.
The pages that follow document a portion of Bill King's work as an arranger, producer, composer and photographer. Art is always a work in progress and so are these pages.
This has been an amazing spring. King has been immersed in five productions - arranging and producing Josephine Biundo's debut - Let There Be Love - Sophie Berkal-Sarbit's - The Peacocks - his own soul jazz unit - The Rhythm Express Band - singer June Garber's - Alfie and Jessica Lalonde's impending debut.