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BILL OVERTON
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Bill Overton (woodwinds, guitar, bass and vocals) was born in
Memphis in 1954 and grew up there immersed in its blues, jazz and
soul music. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, he moved to
New York City in 1981 where he performed with such artists as Mel
Lewis, Doc Cheatham, Mickey Roker, Major Holley, Vic Dickinson,
Rosemary Clooney, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, Howard Alden, Bo
Diddley, the Temptations, the Spinners, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and
many others while teaching at the Brooklyn Conservatory, William
Patterson College, and the Aebersold Jazz Clinics, as well as in the
public schools. He has recorded extensively and conducted clinics,
master classes and seminars throughout the U.S. and abroad. Bill and
his family moved to Libertyville, Illinois, in 1998 and he now teaches
band, guitar and music technology at Oak Grove School in Green Oaks,
IL, and continues to perform with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra,
Symphony II, the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra, and many others.
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Bill Overton (woodwinds, guitar, bass and vocals) was born in
Memphis in 1954 and grew up there immersed in its blues, jazz and
soul music. After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, he moved to
New York City in 1981 where he performed with such artists as Mel
Lewis, Doc Cheatham, Mickey Roker, Major Holley, Vic Dickinson,
Rosemary Clooney, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, Howard Alden, Bo
Diddley, the Temptations, the Spinners, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and
many others while teaching at the Brooklyn Conservatory, William
Patterson College, and the Aebersold Jazz Clinics, as well as in the
public schools. He has recorded extensively and conducted clinics,
master classes and seminars throughout the U.S. and abroad. Bill and
his family moved to Libertyville, Illinois, in 1998 and he now teaches
band, guitar and music technology at Oak Grove School in Green Oaks,
IL, and continues to perform with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra,
Symphony II, the Chicago Jazz Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra, and many others.
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