Bill Dillard

{{short description|American jazz musician}}{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Bill Dillard

| birth_name = William Dillard

| birth_date = July 20, 1911

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = January 16, 1995 (aged 84)

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| genre = Jazz

| instruments = Trumpet, vocals

}}

William Dillard (July 20, 1911 – January 16, 1995){{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/19/obituaries/william-dillard-83-a-jazz-trumpeter.html|title=William Dillard, 83, A Jazz Trumpeter|date=January 19, 1995|access-date=August 23, 2021|website=The New York Times}} was an American jazz trumpeter, actor, and singer.

Background

Dillard was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=694}} and played in bands led by Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Carter, Luis Russell and Teddy Hill, among others. He also had an acting career on Broadway,{{cite book

| author = Carr, Ian

| author-link = Ian Carr

| author2 = Digby Fairweather

| author2-link = Digby Fairweather

| author3 = Brian Priestley

| author3-link = Brian Priestley

| title = Jazz: The Rough Guide

| publisher = The Rough Guides

| year = 1995

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/jazzroughguide00carr/page/170 170–171]

| isbn = 1-85828-137-7

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/jazzroughguide00carr/page/170

}} including in One Mo' Time.

Discography

With Dizzy Gillespie

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird, 1937–1949, [1995])

With Earle Warren

Earle Warren (RCA, 1974){{Cite Grove |last1=Britt |first1=Stan |last2=Rye |first2=Howard |last3=Kernfeld |first3=Barry |date=2003 |title=Dillard, Bill [William] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J121500}}