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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).
Ain't Misbehavin': Solo Piano Live at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford
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
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
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
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
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
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 Jim Santella
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 ...
Jessica Williams: This Side Up
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
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