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Poem
Album: Songs of Earth
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 5:51
Jessica Williams Trio: Freedom Trane
by Jeff Winbush
It is no coincidence that pianist Jessica Williams draws inspiration and energy from saxophonist John Coltrane, another iconoclast whose dogged pursuit of his individalistic muse stood in defiance of trends, customs, critics, and marketplace concerns. Like Coltrane, Williams prides herself in being relentlessly faithful to her own standards of how to play and how to market ...
The Seeker
Album: Freedom Trane
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012
Duration: 8:51
Jessica Williams: Freedom Trane
by Dan McClenaghan
Jessica WilliamsFreedom TraneOrigin Records2011 Jessica Williams, one of our top jazz pianists, has evolved since she tossed the record company expectations and jazz games out the window into the thorny rose bushes, and sought out her own way, and found it, via the establishment of her own ...
Fred Hersch: Alone at the Village Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Fred Hersch almost cashed out back in 2008, when he fell ill with AIDs-related complications and spent seven weeks in a coma. The recovery was arduous, the resumption of his wide-ranging and top-level musical artistry uncertain--an uncertainty erased without a trace by Whirl (Palmetto Records, 2010), a trio set so assured, vibrant and beautiful that ...
Jessica Williams: Touch
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: I Loves You Porgy; Soldaji; Rosa Parks; Wise One; Gail's Song; I Cover the Waterfront; Goodbye Porkpie Hat; Simple Things.
The Art of the Piano
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Triple Door Blues; Esperanza; Love and Hate; Elaine; First Gymnopedie; Prophets; Diane; Lonnie's Lament.
Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2010
by Dan McClenaghan
These are the CDs that never roamed away from the current listening shelf. Jessica Williams Touch Origin Records Masterpiece isn't a word to be tossed around lightly. Jessica Williams, with the eighty-eight piano keys and a lifetime of musical immersion, has created one with this recording.
Hubert Nuss: The Book of Colours
by Dan McClenaghan
Music is a treat for the ears, for the sense of hearing. But are the borders separating the senses permeable? Can Red Garland's piano notes be said to “sparkle?" Can Paul Desmond's alto saxophone have the sound of a dry martini? Are these metaphors, perhaps, based to some extent on realities along a continuum of sensory ...
Jessica Williams: Musical Truths
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Jessica Williams begins a free-wheeling and fascinating conversation with a fan by thanking him for the kind words he has spoken about her music. Then she adds: “But you don't always have to say kind words, you know, as long as you always say the truth." It's advice that is very much in ...
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