26-year-old jazz pianist Billy White was born in San Francisco on May 10, 1982.  He graduated from UCLA in 2005 with a B.A. in ethnomusicology, after studying with jazz legend Kenny Burrell.  He was the  winner of the David Abell piano scholarship, Duke Ellington jazz Scholarship, and Marty Feldman award for jazz.  He has a wide familiarity with world music styles from around the globe, and plans to continue his studies in composition, arranging, and film scoring.

    He has toured with the circus in the Bay Area, played afro-hip-hop in LA with BOKU, played in the smoky jazz caves of Paris, and cut sessions in New York with acid-jazz groups, R&B bands, and jazz groups of all flavors on both coasts.  His chops are featured on the trip-hop compilation "Orange Factory: Sun Rise from the East" (on the track "Hot Shit", produced by Scott Jacoby).  He is currently working on his first jazz album.

     Billy recently returned from Morocco, where he was playing with Wallace Gary in an r&b band in Casablanca.

     He currently lives in Brooklyn,
New York, where he gigs and plays piano for the Martha Graham school of Dance.

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