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Born in Pittsburgh, keyboard\/vocalist Bill Heid has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, and
\nthe Far East, including a three year stay in Japan and nearly two years in China. From 1965 through the mid-70\u2019s, he
\nworked the Hammond B-3 organ \u201cchitlin clubs\u201d with his own groups and with jazz greats such as Sonny Stitt, David
\n\u201cFathead\u201d Newman, Grachan Monchur, Mickey Roker, Joe Dukes, Roger Humphries, Rodney Whitaker, Robert Hurst,
\nGrant Green, Jimmy Ponder, Bruce Foreman, and Henry Johnson, appearing on two Johnson albums for MCA\/Impulse.
\nFrom 1975 to 1984, based in Chicago, Bill toured with blues greats Jimmy Witherspoon, John Lee Hooker, Son Seals,
\nand Fenton Robinson, playing on two albums with Robinson, two with Ko Ko Taylor, and another with Roy Buchanan
\nfor Alligator Records.
\nFrom 1984 through 1999, Heid lived and worked in Detroit, appearing on numerous records with Detroit blues artists
\nJohnnie Bassett, Joe Weaver, and Alberta Adams, which included sessions for Fedora, Cannonball, and Black Magic
\nRecords, and two European tours. In 2000, he relocated to Washington D.C. and in 2002, his group toured Viet Nam,
\nIndonesia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia as Jazz Ambassadors for the U.S. State Department, returning to those countries for
\nan extended tour a year later, then backed vocalist Jay Klum on another Ambassadors tour to five African countries in
\n2004.
\nBetween 1996 and 2003, Bill recorded five organ group CDs for the Savant label, a piano trio record for Doodlin’
\nRecords, and in 2008 and 2009, two organ group CDs for Doodlin’, both featuring guitarist Peter Bernstein. His
\nkeyboard work can also be heard on numerous European TV shows and in the U.S. on PBS documentaries and NBC’s
\n“Dateline” 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