May 2, 20012
 Been Living in Memphis TN  since Nov. of 2011. Slowly finding a place in the community with occational trips back to NY for work.
 February 24, 2011
 Love  Stories has been on the JazzWeek National Airplay charts for 16 weeks.Went up to #10 and is currently #27. One cut; You Go to My Head reached #1 in Philadelphia; The City Of Brotherly Love. Thanks for loving a Brother.
 February  2, 2010
Recording of third CD for Producer Jack Kreisberg . This one is called Love Stories. As of January 3, 2011 it was #10 on the national Jazz Radio playlist. JazzWeek.com. Looking for new opportunities as a result of Love Stories.
October 1, 2010
Hearing Voices is still on the  Jazz Radio Charts at Number 26. This is the 28th week on the charts.  Thanks to all that are playing it and listening to it.  (It stayed on for 36 weeks)
 August 11, 2009
New CD Hearing Voices  came out on August 11,  2009. Was #9 on Jazz Radio Charts by Sept. 7, 2009 (See June 11, 2008)
 March 7, 2009
Duke Ellington Sacred Concert with Jessye Norman with a large ensemble, Chorus, and Strings at St. Johns in New York. This concert was put on by Carnegie Hall
 November 20, 2008
 Played the Today Show, (subbing) in the Count Basie Band, with Tony Bennett. The occasion was the promotion of new Christmas Cd
 September 12, 2008
 Played a Dule Ellington Sacred concet at the University of Maryland with Jessye Norman. Just her, a rhythm section of her long time pianist, Mark Markham, Drummer, Lewis Nash and Bassist Ira Coleman, and My Tenor. Is there a better gig on the planet for a horn player? I doubt it. 
August 10, 2008
Isaac Hayes died on Aug 10, 2008. Didn't think about how significant he was in my life until now. Yes, I worked and recorded with him in those great days of the 70s but  never had a one on one relationship with him.
Thinking back, it was the sound and success of his music that made me make that move to Memphis in October of 1971.
"Black Moses" led me to the Promise Land and set the tone for the rest of my life.
Isaac Hayes will be truly missed in this world. He was a bad Mother ...... Shut yo mouth!!! Just talkin' bout Isaac.
June 11, 2008 
Went into studio to record a new Cd.
 The working title of this one is Hearing Voices. I was calling upon all the ghosts in Hearing Voices. It was all in my head; Coleman Hawkins, Lester, Jacquet, Johnny Hodges, Cannonball, Stitt, Rollins, Gene Ammons, Cleanhead, etc, All the voices that I have been hearing in my head for years. Unfortunately, none of them showed up for the date and as I listened back to the 12 tracks of alternate Alto and Tenor, all I could hear for better or worse was Bill Easley. As for my colleagues, they sounded differently in the studio than they did in my head also for better or worse. Too much instruction? Not enough? Time will tell in terms of who likes it and who doesn't Personally, I am much more pleased with the results than I was with my last effort so that is all that really matters.
 September 4, 2007
Business Man's Bounce CD released on Sept. 4, 2007. Debued on the air play charts on Sept. 24 at #13 and peaked at #7. Pleased that it was recieved so well in Radio Land.
It is on the 18th and Vine Label
 Jan. 13, 2006
Turning 60 is a milestone for anyone no matter what you do for a living. It is a time for reflection and anticipation. I consider it to be a wonderful blessing, especially since most of my musical heroes were not given this much time. Though it has been a long and exciting journey, I honestly don't feel that my best years are behind me. There is plenty of room for growth. The growth will be a result of new opportunities, self motivation and hopefully, continued good health.
July 2000   -   March 2002
During the time period of July 2000 - March 2002, I had the oppottunity to perform and record with one of the current day "Young Lions" of the trumpet. Nicholas Payton put together a twelve piece band that payed tribute to Louis Armstrong. He arranged some modern takes on some of Armstrongs earlier hits. This band traveled the States and Europe playing this new music. The project was documented on a Verve recording called Dear Louis. The record was in the final nominations for a Grammy in 2003.  Hearing the music again in 2008 is a reminder of time well spent.
July 2004 & Feb. 2005
Ruth Brown was a part of my life and career for about twenty years. She was one of those magical people who just got better and better no matter what the odds. We worked July 14 - August 8, 2004 and the month of February 2005 in a New York nightspot called the Jazz AuBar.
The First Ruth Brown Blues Festival took place in her hometown of Portsmouth Va. on May 13, 2006. Ruth Brown and Friends were  there to perform. She was the brightest of Show Business Stars, a true ledgend.  And now on November 17, 2006 I receive word that Ms Rhythm has left the earth.  When Ms B took the band out to dinner she would anounce, "Don't look at the right side of the menu; Get what you want."  She lived her life that way.
 May 2004        Oct. 2004  
Worked at Hotel Carlyle with the legendary Bobby Short in his last seasons. What a great and wonderful man he was; one of the greatest cabaret performers of all times and equally as great as a human being. He treated his music and his musicians with great respect. One of a kind that I will always remember.  
Dec. 2002

The Jazz Organ Combo has been a big part of my music experiance. I was fortunate to play with most of the major names of the Hammond Organ. This format known as Soul Jazz has been one of the bigger pieces of my Music pie. Both Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff were two that included me in their bands for many years.  Jimmy Smith's death left  a big whole in the world of Organic Jazz and in my own soul. Took my first trip to South Africa with Jimmy Smith in December of 2002. McGriff died on May 24, 2008.

 July 6,2002 -   Dec.29,2002  
 Harlem Song was a Musical directed by the Great George Wolf at the Legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem New York. The plan was for this musical to have an unlimited run at the theater and a center piece for the current restoration of the community.  I was a part of the on stage band that played that show from July 6 - December 29, 2002.
The Show traced the cultural development that took place in Harlem from the days of the great Black migration to the days of the Harlem Riots in 1964. Quite significant to me since I arrived in Harlem in 1964, right after the riots.
Name Dropping  
Without meaning to drop names of people and places; Jessye Norman, Johnny Mathis, Michell Lagrand, Chris Conners, Carol Sloane, Mark Murphy, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, The Cab Calloway Band, Japan, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and Pete's Saloon all appear in the recent ledgers of the Bill Easley work calendar. 
 On Jazz
Jazz is one of the most complex and misunderstood words that I know of. Its' meaning gets more confusing with the passing of time? There are all kinds of music that for lack of a better word, we put under the label of "Jazz." The word covers a lot of varriation and diversity?
I have known the people who played the music going all the way back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Jazz is not a style of music; it is, in fact, a thinking process and a way of living. A way of responding to the immediate environment. In it's origin it was a positive reaction to an adverse situation.
When I was a teenager a lady told me, "You play very well but I want to hear you after you have suffered."  Many of the great music makers that I met knew about transfering the elements of pain into music.