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Jessica Williams
by Thomas Conrad
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 ...
Jessica Williams: Deep Monk
by Dan McClenaghan
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, ...
Jessica Williams: Blood Music
by Dan McClenaghan
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.
Empathy
Album: Songs for a New Century
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 7:20
Jessica Williams: Tatum's Ultimatum
by Dan McClenaghan
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 ...
Jessica Williams: Songs for a New Century
by Dan McClenaghan
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 ...
Blues For BT
Album: Billy's Theme
By Jessica Williams
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2006
Duration: 05:34
Jessica Williams: Billy's Theme
by Jack Bowers
One great pianist deserves another. Billy Taylor, who needs no introduction to jazz fans around the world, is the honoree (tributary?) in this solo recital by longtime friend and ardent admirer Jessica Williams, who may need an introduction to some but can easily hold her own against the most accomplished pianists one cares to name. As ...
Live at Yoshi's Volume Two
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2005
Track listing: Flamenco Sketches; Why Do I Love You; Spoken Softly; Elbow Room; Soldaji; Paul's Pal;
Dear Gaylord; Lulu's Back in Town; Summertime
