Jazz Articles about James Gordon Williams

James Gordon Williams: Unrepeatable Life

by Rusty Aceves
August 3, 2005

There are no real overnight sensations in jazz, except perhaps in the most pop/crossover way, so to call James Gordon Williams a “newcomer is a disservice to the man, but it is still a great surprise to hear an artist's first full-length record and discover not a warmed-over collection of warhorse standards, but a sure-handed statement by a fully-formed composer and performer. Characterizing Unrepeatable Life, a word which keeps cropping up is “diversity --a stylistic diversity that ...