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Bill Pierce (other)
Bill Pierce may refer to: Entertainment * Bill Pierce (photographer) (born 1935), American photographer and journalist * Bill Pierce (saxophonist) (born 1948), American jazz saxophonist * Billie Pierce (1907–1974), jazz pianist * Billy Pierce (choreographer) (1890–1933), African American choreographer and dancer Sports * Bill Pierce (American football) (1909–1981), American college football player and coach * Bill Pierce (baseball) (1890–1962), player and manager in the Negro leagues * Billy Pierce (1927–2015), baseball pitcher See also * Bill Pearce (1926–2010), singer, trombonist, and radio broadcaster * Bill Peirce (born 1938), Ohio gubernatorial candidate * Pierce (surname) Pierce is an English, Welsh, and Irish surname. The name is a cognate of French ''Pierre'' ('Peter'). Notable people with that surname include: Disambiguation pages * Andrew Pierce (other), several people * Benjamin Pierce (disambigua ... * William Pierce (other) { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pierce (photographer)
Bill Pierce (born in 1935, Waterbury) is a freelance photographer and journalist with a background in theater, who is based in New York City. Life Pierce was a graduate of Princeton University. He is a self-taught photographer and apprenticed with W. Eugene Smith. He was a photojournalist more than 20 years, during which he covered worldwide events from the civil wars in Beirut and Lebanon to the demonstrators' call for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. His first experience photographing armed conflict was the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The first war he photographed was in Northern Ireland beginning in 1973, doing so off and on for almost a decade. In 1976 Roger Rosenblatt wrote an original story about this, expanded the text into the book ''Children of War'' and turned Pierce into one of its characters. A few of his photographs were featured in the book as illustrations. The book won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 1984. In 1983 he and Bill Fole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pierce (saxophonist)
Bill Pierce (also Billy Pierce) (born September 25, 1948 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams's quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He also has released numerous CDs for which he is the band leader. He studied with Joe Viola and Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music, and with Joe Allard. He is the school's woodwind department chair. Discography As Leader * ''Give and Take'' ( Sunnyside, 1988) * ''Equilateral'' (Sunnyside, 1989) * ''One for Chuck'' (Sunnyside, 1991) * ''Rolling Monk'' (Bellaphon, 1993) * ''Rio (Ballads and Bossa Novas)'' (Sunnyside, 1995) * ''Complete William the Conqueror Sessions'' (Sunnyside, 1995) * ''Burnin - with Javon Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz, 1997) As Sideman With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers * '' Live at Montreux and Northsea'' ( Timeless, 1980) * ''Art Blakey in Sweden'' (Amigo, 1981) * ''Album of the Year'' (Timeless, 1981) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Pierce
Wilhelmina Madison Goodson, known professionally as Billie Pierce (June 8, 1907 – September 29, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce. Her style has been described as a "potent mixture of barrelhouse, boogie-woogie, and ragtime". After settling in New Orleans in 1930, she played in the bands of A.J. Piron, Alphonse Picou, Emile Barnes, and George Lewis. Early life Wilhelmina (Billie) Goodson was born on June 8, 1907, in her mother's home town of Marianna, Florida, United States, and grew up in Pensacola, Florida. She was one of six piano-playing sisters (including Ida Goodson and Sadie Goodson) whose father, Madison H. Goodson, and mother, Sarah Jenkins Goodson, also played the piano. There was a seventh daughter, Maggie, who died young. Billie was the second youngest of the girls; the order of the sisters from oldest to youngest went Mabel (b. 1899), Della (1901), Sadie (1903), Edna (1904), Billie (1907) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Pierce (choreographer)
Billy Pierce (14 June 1890 – 11 April 1933) was an African American choreographer, dancer and dance studio owner who has been credited with the invention of the Black Bottom dance that became a national craze in the mid-1920s. Biography The son of two freedmen, Dennis and Nellie (née Shorter) Pierce, William Joseph Pierce was born in Purcellville, Virginia. His parents were truck farmers, but Billy, an only child, went to college, matriculating first at Storer College and then attending Howard University. Pierce started out as a journalist, eventually moving to Chicago to write for the ''Chicago Defender'', the premier African American newspaper of its time. He also worked for two Washington, D.C.-based newspapers, the ''Dispatcher'' and the ''Washington Eagle''. During World War I, he served with the 8th Infantry Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an all-black unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Otis B. Duncan, the highest ranking black officer in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pierce (American Football)
William Clarkson Pierce (September 6, 1909 – September 8, 1981) was an American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... player and coach. A Notre Dame player during his college years, he served as the head football coach at Stephen F. Austin State University, Austin College and St. Edward's University in Texas. Pierce began his coaching career in 1933 at St. Edward's, when he was hired as line coach under head football coach Jack Chevigny. He moved to Austin College the following year to serve in the same capacity under Joseph B. Head. Pierce was born on September 6, 1909, in Seibert, Colorado. He served in World War II and later worked for Kraft Foods. He retired in 1975 and moved from Champaign, Illinois to Victoria, Texas, where he died in a hospital on Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pierce (baseball)
William Herbert Pierce (born April 30, 1890 and died August 1962) was a Negro leagues catcher, first baseman and manager for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first few seasons. Nicknamed "Bonehead" and "Big Bill Pierce", he played for the Philadelphia Giants at the age of 20. During the winter, he often played baseball in Cuba and Florida. Pierce would play most of his seasons for the Lincoln Giants. Pierce would follow his battery mate Ad Lankford from the Lincoln Giants after their successful 1915 season, to join the Pennsylvania Red Caps of New York. He registered for the WWI draft on June 5, 1917, listing his occupation as a Porter for the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Manhattan. He also lists himself as married and living at 2229 5th Avenue in New York City. Pierce managed the Baltimore Black Sox in 1922. His last known season as a player was 1924, for the Detroit Stars at the age of 34. At the age of 62, Pierce received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Pierce
Walter William Pierce (April 2, 1927 – July 31, 2015) was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball between 1945 and 1964 who played most of his career for the Chicago White Sox. He was the team's star pitcher in the decade from 1952 to 1961, when they posted the third best record in the major leagues, and received the Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award for the American League (AL) in and after being runner-up in both 1953 and 1955. A seven-time All-Star, he led the American League (AL) in complete games three times despite his slight build, and in wins, earned run average (ERA) and strikeouts once each. He pitched four one-hitters and seven two-hitters in his career, and on June 27, came within one batter of becoming the first left-hander in 78 years to throw a perfect game. He was one of the principal figures in Chicago's fierce rivalry with the New York Yankees; particularly notable were his matchups with Whitey Ford, with the two left-handers opposing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pearce
Bill Pearce (May 20, 1926 February 23, 2010) was an American singer, solo trombonist, nationally syndicated broadcaster and inductee into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He died at age 83 on February 23, 2010, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Early life William Jones Pearce was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 1926. His father was an itinerant Methodist minister with his own daily radio program, ''Christian Voices'', which could be heard on WFIL, WIP and WCAM. He gave the message, his mother played the piano and sang. Bill, along with his brother and sister played together in a brass trio. However, Bill Pearce started out with a totally different instrument in the beginning. "My first interest in music really was grade school orchestra," he said; "they needed a clarinet player and whether I looked like one or not, I was chosen to play an old metal clarinet. I did not take to that instrument at all, and it just frustrated the dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierce (surname)
Pierce is an English, Welsh, and Irish surname. The name is a cognate of French ''Pierre'' ('Peter'). Notable people with that surname include: Disambiguation pages * Andrew Pierce (other), several people * Benjamin Pierce (other), several people * Bill Pierce (other), several people * Bobby Pierce (other), several people * Charles Pierce (other), several people * David Pierce (other), several people * Edward Pierce (other), several people * Franklin Pierce (other), several people * George Pierce (other), several people * Jack Pierce (other), several people * John Pierce (other), several people *James Pierce (other), several people * Larry Pierce (other), several people * Richard Pierce (other), several people * William Pierce (other), several people Arts and letters *Aida Pierce (born 1956), Mexican actress and comedian *Bradley Pierce (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
