- (August 1988 - September 1989) Original bass player/backup singer in the Oddballs for European, American and Canadian tours. The name of the band, Johnny Thunders band while he was alive, referred posthumously to the legendary New York Dolls guitarist (and Heartbreakers founder) final band line-ups.
- Composed original music for Tony Garcia's 30 second commercial, "Gotcha" which won both a 2001 Clio and AICP award in the student category. Tony Garcia's work set a precedent in these competitions by winning a gold medal in both festivals in this category as well as winning a medal for two commercials in each.
- Performed as a backup guitarist at one concert in the 80s for the legendary doo wop group Jive Five.
- Bass player for the legendary glam star Brett Smiley at a comeback in 2005, coinciding with the release of his biography by Nina Antonio; bass player/backup for Johnny Black album produced by Daniel Rey (Daniel is the Ramones producer and lead singer voice on Jill's "Quadratic" songs in the movie soundtrack of Welcome to the Dollhouse); bass player/backup singer for the late, New York punk rocker Rick Blaze (and the Ballbusters)
- Featured as "Carla" in legendary producer Arthur Cantor's production of "Money Talks" at the prestigious Promenade Theater. Playing Helen Gallagher's daughter, the production also starred Dolores Grey and Julie Halston.
- Lead guitarist for 80s infamous all girl reggae band Steppin' Razor.
- Company member and children's theater director for numerous seasons at the number one musical stock company, LI's Gateway Playhouse.
- Toured the tristate area for numerous years as bass player/guitarist in country cover bands.
- World famous guitarist/producer Chris Spedding produced demos of songs Jill wrote from time to time. One song entitled "In The Night" was eventually used in a 16mm music video directed by Dee D. Bache' Jill performed in. It went into rotation throughout Europe through a Swedish music video station while simultaneously showing up in the US on the indie and college circuit. A couple of the songs later produced by Spedding for her New York City band, The Con Artists, (featuring Jill on bass, Mike George on guitar and Gordon Grip on drums) were used in the soundtrack of the film and album for "Welcome to the Dollhouse".
- Performed with alternative punk bands in the East Village from the heyday of the punk scene on after leaving a singing/dance group formed with Ernest Kohl (who today continues to turn out dance music hits) called "Creatures of the Night" which performed an all disco version of the Rocky Horror Show in NYC clubs. Jill spent a lot of time in this group running around at Studio 54 in wigs followed by a horde of photographers (with no film in their cameras) hired by the group's management. Demo tapes made at that time featured group friend Irene Cara as a guest percussionist and were recorded at A-1 studios which was located over the Beacon theater and owned by legendary record exec Herb Abramson. After a glorious two week off-off Broadway run of the group's original musical written by Jill called "Phantom of the Disco" at the New York Theater Ensemble, Jill left disco behind forever.
- Directed the downtown cult off-off Broadway hit Joan Crawford's Children in the early 1980s.
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