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Songs for a New Century

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Empathy; Toshiko; Fantasia; Song for a Baby; Blessing in Disguise; Lament; Dear Oscar; Spoken Softly; If Only.

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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's 2008 Top Ten

by Dan McClenaghan
December 27, 2008

Here are ten of 2008's jazz CDs that charmed and seduced me, or grabbed my lapels and wouldn't let go. Bobo Stenson Trio Cantando ECM Records A piano trio set of incredible subtlety, depth and beauty, with Swedish pianist joined by bassist Anders Jormin ...

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Article: Profile

Jessica Williams

by Thomas Conrad
December 13, 2008

It is hard to think of a jazz musician who has gone her own way more resolutely than pianist Jessica Williams. She works only on her own solo and trio projects, never as a sideperson. She engineers her own albums for her own label, Red and Blue, and sells them on her own website, which she ...

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Article: Album Review

Jessica Williams: Deep Monk

Read "Deep Monk" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 26, 2008

Do we really need another tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk? Everybody who is anybody in the jazz game has put a Monk song on an album. Some have been so bold as to dedicate an entire album to the odd and angular songs full of playful dissonance and unexpected angles.Not easy tunes to play, ...

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Jessica Williams: Blood Music

Read "Blood Music" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 26, 2008

This electronically rendered music thing got its start with Wendy (then Walter) Carlos back in 1968, with the Grammy-winning Switched-On Bach (CBS Records). Carlos played the then-new Moog Synthesizer, giving a serous electric glow to composition by Johann Sebastian Bach.Now Jessica Williams--one of the finest acoustic jazz pianists alive--"switches on" for Blood Music.

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Empathy

May 7, 2008

Album: Songs for a New Century
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 7:20

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Jessica Williams: Tatum's Ultimatum

Read "Tatum's Ultimatum" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 6, 2008

Rule Number 1 of writing a music review: try to be at least half as creative and spontaneous as the music at hand. Rule Number 2: If it's Jessica Williams' music you're writing about, good luck with Rule Number 1.Pianist Jessica Williams is another one of those jazz artists who hasn't received the acclaim ...

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Jessica Williams: Songs for a New Century

Read "Songs for a New Century" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 17, 2008

If you slip into Jessica Williams' web site and ride the currents of her blog, you could get the feeling that the (proudly) sixty year-old jazz pianist is something of an eccentric. Which is a good thing--in this case, an eccentric being one who has walked away from the hype, b.s. and group think with her ...

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