Results for "Jessica Williams"

Ain't Misbehavin': Solo Piano Live at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford

By Jessica Williams

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: El Salvador; Alone Together; The Eulipians; Paul's Pal; Too Young to Go Steady; Black Diamond; Don't Blame Me; Joyful Sorrow; Ain't Misbehavin'; After the Rain

Jessica Williams: Ain't Misbehavin': Solo Piano Live at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford

by J. Robert Bragonier
October 14, 2003

In 1742, Oxford's Holywell Music Room was built specifically for concerts with funds raised by public subscription; it is reputedly the oldest such building in Europe. Accommodating 250 persons and blessed with excellent acoustics, it has over the years hosted such musicians as Handel, Mozart, Haydn and Vivaldi. On March 10, 1996 the room hosted one ...

Jessica Williams: All Alone

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 5, 2003

Pianist Jessica Williams follows up on last year's trio outing This Side Up with All Alone, a collection of standards and originals for solo piano that she plays with great imagination and dexterity. And when Williams plays, she doesn't play around, taking on all-time champion composers like Ellington, Mingus, and Irving Berlin. The ...

Jessica Williams: All Alone

by Jim Santella
March 1, 2003

Jessica Williams interprets our favorite standards like no other. She turns “As Time Goes By” into a history lesson, with mental images from the film Casablanca and outside quotes to fill in the cracks. Irving Berlin’s “All Alone” takes on a similar role, as the pianist’s crisp right hand dances lightly to a simple stride left, ...

Jessica Williams: All Alone

by C. Michael Bailey
February 9, 2003

This time last year saw the debut release of West Coast pianist Jessica Williams for MAXJAZZ. This Side Up (2002), an exceptional standard trio offering, blew over the piano landscape like a nuclear tsunami, flattening all lesser offerings at the time. Williams's encyclopedic understanding of the many schools of jazz piano and the styles of those ...

This Side Up

By Jessica Williams

Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Judge; Blue Tuesday; Black Diamonds; Little Bird Song; Serenata; Miles To Go; Theme for the Eulipians; I Remember Dexter; Innocence; Off Blue.

Jessica Williams: This Side Up

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2002

Full-bodied piano from the West Coast   In spite of many fine recordings, apparently Jessica Williams' pianistic light remains beneath the basket. No more— This Side Up, Ms. William's debut for Max Jazz should shine a light on her exquisite talent for all of the listening public to see (hear). As the third release in Max ...

Jessica Williams: This Side Up

by Jim Santella
May 1, 2002

As she interprets Rahsaan Roland Kirk's “Theme for the Eulipians," Jessica Williams swaggers with the same attitude its composer possessed. A swinging blues feeling runs through her session, but the pianist's clearly defined keyboard technique takes her along a delicate path. The right hand paints light watercolor pastels that contain lightning streaks of contrast. Her left ...

Blue Fire

By Jessica Williams

Label: Jazz Focus Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Blue Fire; The Vision; Soul Sister; Somebody's Waltz; Blues 2K; Kenny Kirkland; Elbow Room; Everything Happens To Me

Solo Piano Compositions / Jessica Williams Plays for Lovers

By Jessica Williams

Label: Red & Blue Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Solo Piano Compositions: 1) Innocence 2) Blues for Bill 3) Vision Quest 4) What's Next 5) Spoken Softly 6) Waltz for Red 7) Remembering 8) Elbow Room 9) Dark One 10) Simple Things

Jessica Williams plays for Lovers: 1) Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 2) Don't Explain 3) That's All 4) I Loves You, Porgy 5) My Foolish Heart 6) I Wish I Knew 7) Flamenco Sketches 8) When I Fall in Love 10) Blue Moon 11) Naima