Billy Childs
William Edward Childs (best known as “Billy Childs”) is a composer and jazz… Read Full Bio ↴William Edward Childs (best known as “Billy Childs”) is a composer and jazz pianist from Los Angeles. Born March 8, 1957, he began piano lessons when he was six. When he was 16, Childs started attending the Community School of the Performing Arts, a prestigious music program sponsored by the University of Southern California (USC). After having studied theory there with Marienne Uszler and piano with John Weisenfluh, he attended USC (1975-79), earning a bachelor of music degree in composition, under the tutelage of Robert Linn.
Childs was playing professionally as a teenager and he made his recording debut in 1977 with the J. J. Johnson Quintet during a tour of Japan that is documented as the Yokohama Concert. He gained significant attention during his six-years (1978-84) playing with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s group. While influenced early on in his playing by Herbie Hancock, Keith Emerson, and Chick Corea and in his composing by Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky, Childs nevertheless had an original conception of his own from near the start, developing his own voice as both a pianist and a composer in jazz and classical music genres.
Childs was playing professionally as a teenager and he made his recording debut in 1977 with the J. J. Johnson Quintet during a tour of Japan that is documented as the Yokohama Concert. He gained significant attention during his six-years (1978-84) playing with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s group. While influenced early on in his playing by Herbie Hancock, Keith Emerson, and Chick Corea and in his composing by Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel, and Igor Stravinsky, Childs nevertheless had an original conception of his own from near the start, developing his own voice as both a pianist and a composer in jazz and classical music genres.
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Billy Childs Lyrics
And When I Die And when I die and when I'm dead, dead and…
Been on a Train Been on a train, baby did you hear the whistle…
Cinema Paradiso Se tu fossi nei miei occhi per un giorno Vedresti la…
Do You Know My Name? Do you know my name? Have you seen a trace of…
Gibsom Street Don't go to Gibsom cross the river The devil is hungry,…
I'll Be Seeing You I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places That…
La Belle Dame Sans Regrets Dansons tu dis Et moi je suis Mes pas…
Map To The Treasure Where is your woman? Gone to Spanish Harlem? Gone to buy…
New York Tendaberry New York tendaberry, blue berry A rush on rum, of brush…
Save the Country Come on, people! Come on, children! Come on down to the…
Stoned Soul Picnic Can you surry? Can you picnic? Can you surry? Can you picnic…
The Confession Super summer, sugar coppin' In the mornin' Do your shoppin' …
To a Child What is life? Did you read about it in a magazine? Silent…
Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp Market in the cool white mornin' Merchants sell while women …
You Don't Know What Love Is You don't know what love is 'Til you've learned the meaning…