Bill Pierce

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For the 2006 Ohio gubernatorial candidate, see Bill Peirce. For the 2006 Ohio senatorial candidate, see William G. Pierce. For the baseball pitcher, see Billy Pierce.

Bill Pierce (born September 25, 1948 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams's quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He studied with Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music and as of 2006 is the school's woodwind department chair.