Billy Childs

Billy Childs

4.5
Plays / Listener
20,687
Last.fm Listeners
453
Deezer Fans
Top 13%
💎 Hidden Gem
1988
Active Since
13
Releases
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William Edward Childs (best known as “Billy Childs”) is a composer and jazz pianist from Los Angeles. Born March 8, 1957, he began piano lessons when he was six. When he was 16, Childs started attending the Community School of the Performing Arts, a prestigious music program sponsored by the University of Southern California (USC).

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Why This Artist

Billy Childs has 21K listeners but only 453 platform followers (ratio 46:1) — organic discovery is doing all the work. Engagement is trending upward across releases. A jazz act in the sonic world of Keith Jarrett and The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Sounds Like

Keith Jarrett · The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Chick Corea · Thelonious Monk · Horace Silver

Discography

Triumvirate(2026) · album
One Fleeting Instant
6:05
One Fleeting Instant(2026) · single
The Winds of Change(2023) · album
I Thought I Knew
6:05
The Winds of Change
10:32
Acceptance(2020) · album
Dori
7:34
Rebirth(2017) · album
Backwards Bop
6:37
The Windmills of Your Mind
7:09
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro(2014) · album
And When I Die
6:11
Stoned Soul Picnic
4:26
Skim Coat(2006) · album
The Child Within(2005) · album
Above & Beyond(1998) · compile
Portrait Of A Player(1993) · album
Healing the Pain(1990) · album
Twilight Is Upon Us(1989) · album
Take For Example This(1988) · album
Billy Childs — Underground jazz, piano | Resonance