Philip B. Cunneff, lecturer in jazz history and percussion instructor at Harford Community College, has led his own innovative piano-less jazz trios for over fifteen years. His musical apprenticeship was served in the jazz clubs of Virginia, Washington DC, Boston, and New York. During a two year residence in Charlotte, NC, he performed and lectured with the American Indigenous Music Project. He attended Rutgers University, majoring in jazz performance and leading his own quartet and quintet at the world-famous Blue Note and other New York and New Jersey venues. Mr. Cunneff also designed and presented jazz concert/lecture programs in schools throughout New Jersey under grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, administered by Young Audiences.

His newest recording, "Levi," will be released in spring 2005 on the Fells Point Jazz label. He can also be found supporting jazz guitarists Paul Wingo and Rick Hannah, Steve Kraemer's Bluesicians, and the vocal jazz group After Hours (Harford Community College Artists-in-Residence). He has performed with pianists Sammy Price, Kenny Barron, Dorothy Donegan, Bill Mays, George Colligan, and Harry Pickens, vocalists Jon Hendricks, Carol Sloane, and Mark Murphy, saxophonists Houston Person, Eddie Barefield, Clifford Jordan, Harold Vick, Julius Hemphill, Ken McIntyre, Carl Grubbs and Thomas Chapin, bassists Drew Gress, Mike Formanek, Larry Ridley and Paul Gill, trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Belgrave and Virgil Jones, trombonists Dicky Wells, Curtis Fuller, and Benny Powell, violinist Sara Caswell, and guitarists Ted Dunbar, Paul Bollenback, Rory Stuart, Sheryl Bailey, and Joshua Breakstone.

Mr. Cunneff joined the HCC faculty in 2001.