Bill Harrison

Bill Harrison worked as a professional bass player in Chicago for four decades. He performed with jazz greats Clark Terry, James Moody, Bunky Green, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Daley, and Woody Herman's Thundering Herd. His orchestra pit credits include Wicked, The Lion King, Billy Elliott, Always...Patsy Cline, The Visit, and many others. Bill's first book, the memoir Making the Low Notes is available from Open Books Press. His other work is published in After Hours, Allium, Counseling Today, The Intermezzo, Sandpiper, Sledgehammer, Under the Gum Tree, and elsewhere. Bill has a private psychotherapy practice in Chicago, where he lives with his poet/therapist wife and a naughty Bengal named Jazzy.