Grammy nominated Bill O'Connell is a Steinway artist and four-time recipient of the coveted
"Jazz Writer of the Year" award from SESAC.

 
After 13 albums as a leader, O’Connell has established himself as one of the main forces of Latin jazz in NYC. While his piano playing has influenced many others in the city, his composing and arranging skills have made him a legend.
— Mark Phillips, The Vinyl Anachronist

“Known in particular for his participation in Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins groups, pianist Bill O’Connell has become a master of Latin Jazz…”

— Nouveautes and Reeditions (France)

There is no doubt this jazz cat (Bill O’Connell) has a game, more like fire-breathing musical passion tempered with immense intellectual dominance of Jazz and Latin music, that may be good enough to rival some of the great Latin Jazz pianists of the last quarter century: Chucho Valdes, George Dalto, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and others.
— Bobby Ramirez , Latinjazzclub
This is a pianist with immense “player power,” as it were. The range of his artistic spectrum seems limitless, and I suggest my readers will be moved by this colossus of musical dignity and improvisational authority.
— George Carroll, ejazznews
Bill O’Connell’s Savant recording (A Change is Gonna Come”) cements his place as a master of the broadest spectrum of musical styles, a giant of modern jazz, and a member of Latin jazz royalty.
— (Fye.com)