Articles by Michael J. Williams

Jazz Fiction

Elvin's Waiting

by Michael J. Williams
March 31, 2021

This article was originally published in Turbula.net in 2004. Behind the Viking Lounge Is there a swimming pool and a garden where they hold summer fish fries Families living in the building know and love each other They have parties year round just among themselves ...

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Gilly’s Remembered

by Michael J. Williams
November 30, 2017

Anyone who was a jazz aficionado in Cincinnati in the 1970s and wanted to hear the upper echelon musicians in the art form--the artists written about in Downbeat and whose records played regularly on the local AM station, WNOP--knew what to do. Make the 50-mile trek up Interstate 75 to Gilly's in Dayton. While the Queen City had its share of jazz spots, they mostly drew upon the local talent, which was nothing to disparage when ...