The Something Cool Trio - photo by Steve Minor	Jaqui, Bill, and Heath - photo by David Royal
	Jaqui, Bill, and Heath - photo by David Royal
Jaqui, Bill, and Heath - photo by David Royal

• Jaqui Hope - My Fingers Refuse to Sleep (by Bill Minor): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqjmDeiz2s
• It's a Wonderful World - Jaqui Hope, Bill Minor, Heath Proskin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHVwizEvNA&feature;=youtu.be
• Jaqui Hope - The Nearness of You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJKRAftpvM
• ‘Round Midnight - Jaqui Hope, Bill Minor, Heath Proskin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBynYTsvv8A
• Bill Minor Something Cool Trio at Alternative Café—Ain’t Misbehavin’ (with Jenn Schaaf, drums; Heath Proskin, bass; Bill Minor, piano and vocal): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjAd39hlIWE
• Bill Minor Trio at MHCAN Benefit—Pannonica (with Richard Mayer, flute; Heath Proskin, bass; Bill Minor, piano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5wMBuxPkw
• Jaqui Hope and Bill Minor, at Pacific Grove Art Center—You Go to My Head (Jaqui Hope, vocal; Bill Minor, piano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_IHYMbqxo
• Richard Mayer and Bill Minor play “Lover Man”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUdX8RlW_0w
• Richard Mayer, Heath Proskin and Bill Minor offer Bill’s prose poem “Q-Tips”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6gcncnm2k
• Norma Mayer, Richard Mayer and Bill Minor present “An Evening with William Blake” at the Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, California: http://youtu.be/t98a01V3Fu0 

Also, check out the Flash movie created by Bill's son Steve Minor (steve-minor@sbcglobal.net)
"I Cried of Course" (sung by soprano Elise Rotchford with Bill on piano: also track # 3 in the samples below).

Click the "play" icons to hear short audio samples.	Windows Media	Real Player
Love Is A Name
Somewhere A Woman Walks Through The World
I Cried Of Course
Beautiful Is When We Least Expect It
I Will Never Know How I Lost Her
Never Seek To Tell
I Touch The Dawn White Milk Warm Body Of A Woman
Very Large Words

Encouraged by uncles (Max Gail and Bill Gail) who were professional musicians, Bill Minor took up music at an early age, playing clarinet in his elementary school band. In high school, he switched to piano (studying with Pontiac, Michigan radio DJ Dean Yokum) and drums, and started his own orchestra, which played at dances in southeastern Michigan. When he went to New York City to study art at Pratt Institute in the mid-Fifties, Bill played piano at the 456 Club in Brooklyn, and also in a combo providing music for Columbia University fraternity parties and the 442nd Association/Nisei Service Organization. During the late Sixties, in Wisconsin, Bill played guitar and piano with folk rock groups The Salty Dogs and Bill, Blake and Rick. He also presented programs of American folk music with multi-instrumentalist Lee Rexroat.

In 1999, Bill joined guitarist/singer/songwriters Nancy Raven (Nancy Raven: Sings Her Favorites) and Karl Dobbratz (Run With Desire) in a trio which has performed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (benefit for American Heart Association), the Pacific Grove Arts Center, Morgan's Coffee & Tea, Forge in-the-Forest, the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Asilomar Conference Grounds, and the Louden Nelson Center in Santa Cruz. Bill participated in Bob Phillips' An Extraordinary Evening of Musical Crossover concert at Carleton Hall, with soprano Elise Rotchford and Karl Dobbratz.

In 2005, Bill formed a group called Something Cool, which features vocalist Julie Capili, Brice Albert on guitar, Heath Proskin on bass, Skylar Campbell on drums, and Bill on piano. The group has given three concerts at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel: “An Evening of Bossa Nova: Homage to Luiz Bonfa & Antonio Carlos Jobim—and Beyond” and two programs that combined Bill’s nonfiction and poetry with music from the American Songbook. The group has also performed at the Martine Inn, Monterey Live, Susan Cantrell’s Star Words book launch party, Cava Wine Bar in Capitola, and Doc’s Lab (the setting for Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday) in Cannery Row.