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Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume Two
by John Kelman
Like pianist Mulgrew Miller, who recently released a second volume of trio performances from his run at Yoshi's, pianist Jessica Williams is also putting out her own sequel, another 70 minutes of music culled from her July, 2003 stint at the Oakland club, which has become as renowned on the west coast as New York's Village ...
Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume Two
by Jim Santella
Jessica Williams never lets her audience down. This second volume of live performances at Yoshi's in Oakland, California provides yet another example of her creative muse in action. With her piano trio, the artist sculpts each selection as if it were made out of sand. Gently prodding, she finds a solution that's satisfying as well as ...
Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume Two
by Michael McCaw
From sweeping dramatic crescendos to Monkish innuendo and straight-up ballad mastery, pianist Jessica Williams always seems to be on top of her game. And when you hear her play so creatively, you have to wonder why she is not as heralded as many other pianists in the straight-ahead jazz idiom. It's not like she has not ...
The Real Deal
Label: Hep Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Misty; Morning of the Carnival; Friday the 13th; Petite Fleur; If I Should Lose You; Round Midnight; Tea; Sweet and Lovely; To Thelonious With Love; Out and Out Blues; My Romance; Don't Blame Me
Live at Yoshi's Volume One
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2004
Track listing: I'm Confessin' That I Love You; Say It Over and Over Again; You Say You Care; Tutu's Promise; Heather; Alone Together; Poem in G Minor; I Want to Talk About You; Mysterioso
Jessica Williams: The Real Deal
by John Kelman
'04 is a banner year for Jessica Williams, with MaxJazz releasing Live at Yoshi's and Hep Jazz issuing The Real Deal , a solo album that Williams recorded live in the comfort of her own home, in the fall of '00. The two records demonstrate just how far Williams has come in the past four years. ...
Jessica Williams: Live At Yoshi's Volume One
by Chris May
It's all too easy to let piano trio albums pass you by. The format is so familiar, and the palette so thoroughly explored, that the prospect of adventure and surprise may seem remote. If it's not the Esbjorn Svensson Trio or the Bad Plus, packing their radical hairstyles and digital effects, the music can find itself ...
Jessica Williams: Live At Yoshi's, Volume One
by Jim Santella
An evening out with the Jessica Williams trio is a pleasure never to be forgotten. Her interpretation of the songs we love keeps them near and dear to our hearts. With Ray Drummond and Victor Lewis, the pianist rings true with a song selection fit for lovers of the straight-ahead scene. Her crisp articulation ...
Jessica Williams: Live at Yoshi's Volume One
by John Kelman
Pianist Jessica Williams may not be as well known, say, as Mulgrew Miller or Kenny Barron, but she's a powerful and talented pianist more than a little influenced by Thelonious Monk. Still, with an immediately recognizable playing style all her own, Williams clearly belongs in the upper ranks of mainstream pianists, and her latest disc, Live ...
All Alone
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2003
Track listing: As Time Goes By; In a Sentimental Mood; Warm Valley; All Alone; They
Say It's Wonderful; Don't Explain; Toshiko; The Sheikh; Bill's Beauty; The
Quilt; Orange was the Color of Her Dress Then Blue Silk; To Young To Go
Steady. (Total Time 62:05).
