Piedmont Piano Company invites you to join us for jazz on Father's Day
the Bill Jackman Trio

Bill Jackman, Piano - Terry Hilliard, Bass - Johnny Apperson, Drums
"Jazz and Pop celebrating Father's Day and the last day of Spring"

Sunday, June 20 at 4PM
at Piedmont Piano Company's new store located at
18th & San Pablo, Oakland (1728 San Pablo Ave.)

$10 donation requested - proceeds benefit the Piedmont Piano Co. Scholarship Fund

please call 510-547-8188 to reserve tickets with your credit card

Bill Jackman was a student of the late Oakland jazz pianist Art Fletcher who for several decades led a piano trio with Terry Hilliard on bass and Johnny Apperson on drums (see below). Bill is a Lupita Records recording artist who has recorded six CDs in the piano trio format. He is also an accomplished dancer, and Bill and his late wife Lupita made a dance video entitled “Dancing to Jazz” in which they danced to their own jazz piano trio music. (www.LupitaRecords.com)

Born in 1936, Terry Hilliard is a legendary jazz bassist made internationally famous by pioneering performances on Cal Tjader’s multi-platinum “Soul Sauce” and “Soul Bird” albums. The “Soul Sauce” album, propelled by Terry on bass and an all-star rhythm, was so ground-breaking that almost 40 years after its first release it is still for sale on CD. One of the most sought after bassists in the Bay Area, Terry was recently honored by Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco as a Jazz Legend of the Fillmore, a S. F. jazz location which flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and which the City is now working to revive.

Drummer Johnny Apperson has played with a host of jazz greats during a fifty-year career, including: pianist/vibraphonist Buddy Montgomery, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, with whom Johnny co-led a quintet; tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders; alto saxophonist John Handy; and trumpeter Dr. Eddie Henderson. In addition to his busy musical life, Johnny served for 13 years as a Special Assistant to Congressman Ron Dellums in Washington, D.C.