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Bradley Williams
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Bradley Williams - Chicago-based pianist, composer, vocalist and producer. He is a Grammy-nominated pianist/arranger for Woody Herman's Thundering Herd, with whom he toured in the mid 1980s. After settling in Chicago he brought his talents to such classic venues as The Green Mill and The Gold Star Sardine Bar (serving there as musical director.)
In the world of broadcasting he was co-host/creator of the internationally syndicated "Words and Music" program. His compositions have been incorporated into multiple film soundtracks, and his composition/orchestration "Beyond Bars," a tone poem featuring the words of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, was premiered by the Cape Symphony in January 2020.
Williams leads his own 10-piece band, "The 21st Century Review," a group that toured the Middle East and India and, most recently, appears on the CD "Investigation."
His trio was featured at the 2017 Chicago Jazz Festival, and he is currently writing and producing an original musical entitled "The Magic Word." Williams is also collaborating with his wife, vocalist and pianist Amy Jill, on a soon-to-be-released CD, "Back and Forth." He continues to appear regularly in Chicago and also operates their recording studio, Eloquent Sound Chicago.
Williams teaches Jazz piano and vocal technique at Wheaton Conservatory in Wheaton, Illinois, and served on the faculties of DePaul University School of Music, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Benedictine College, and the Moscow College of Improvisation.
Big Eyes Big Ears
Label: 21st Century Entertainment DBA
Released: 2025
Track listing: Perfect Wreck; If You Only Knew; Penultimatum; Karen; Trading Underpants; Fear; Gal
Costa; In Memorium; Bella Estrella Roja; Christmas Eve 2020; Nara Marie Willya?;
Lullaby; The Stroll; Sojourn; Amy's Valentine; Some Advice; After the Moon is New;
Rule Of Three
By Phil Brown
Label: A Caldera Productions
Released: 2025
Track listing: Samba Dois-Cinco; Lost In The Form; Bob’s Your Uncle; Magnolia; El Buscador; Nocturne; Rule Of Three; Es Y No Es; In Stride; La Coda De Moda; Hip-Bop.
Perfect Wreck
Album: Big Eyes Big Ears
By Bradley Williams
Label: 21st Century Entertainment DBA
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:29
The Depaul University Jazz Ensemble: Salutes Woody Herman
by Jack Bowers
Were he still with us, bandleader Woody Herman would have turned one hundred years young on May 16, 2013. What better way, then, to mark the occasion than by doing something that made “the Chopper" happier than anything else: swinging hard and often. Chicago's DePaul University Jazz Ensemble does precisely that on this superb album comprised ...
3
Label: 21st Century Entertainment
Released: 2012
Track listing: Twilight Prelude; Penultimatum; The Garden; For Crowley; Fish Samich; In
The Delta Valley; Waiting... Waiting...; little "e"; Before Fall;
Clybourn Strut; Song For Sarah; Plumb Bob.
Bradley Williams / Eric Hochberg / Jim Widlowski: 3
by Ian Patterson
Stalwarts of the Chicago music scene and veterans of an impressive array of collaborations with a who's who of jazz, pianist Bradley Williams, bassist Eric Hochberg--who together penned all the tunes-- and drummer Jim Widlowski make their debut trio recording with 3, an elegant, straight-ahead set of originals. Much of Williams' recorded output over the past ...
Bradley Williams, Eric Hochberg, and Jim Widlowski: 3
by Chris Mosey
Bradley Williams is a talented, resourceful jazz musician who, for two years in the mid-1980s, was pianist/arranger with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd. He settled in Chicago, becoming house pianist at the legendary Gold Star Sardine Bar. They called it that because it could take only 50 people, though such was its reputation that stars such as ...
Plumb Bob
Album: 3
By Bradley Williams
Label: 21st Century Entertainment
Released: 2012
Duration: 04:42
"3" - A Refreshing Approach to the Art of the Piano Trio
After 20 years of musical collaboration pianist Bradley Williams and bassist Eric Hochberg, along with drummer Jim Widlowski, join forces with this excursion through 12 diverse originals, penned by Williams and Hochberg. The program opens with the driving “Penultimatum" and a thoughtful pause in “The Garden." After some beatnik bongos with a “Fish Samich" there's the ...
