Jazz Articles about Greg Williamson

Greg Williamson & the Big Bad Groove Society: Swing Your Big Head

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1998

When one has no idea what to envision, what ensues can sometimes be a pleasant surprise - which is exactly the case with drummer Greg Williamson's new release, Swing Your Big Head. From the instrumentation and (some) song titles, I was half expecting to hear a Dixieland group. What I heard instead was a pretty competent mainstream sextet from the Seattle area whose program gives new meaning to the word “eclectic." There are eight compositions by Williamson, two by Greg ...