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James Gordon Williams: Unrepeatable Life
by Rusty Aceves
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 ...
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