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Richard Williams

Richard Williams is a versatile composer skilled in a wide spectrum of genres and moods from epic orchestral to touching piano to fast-paced EDM.  While earning his bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, he won two Student Emmys at the College TV Awards for his film scores to BYU’s animations.  Following his education, he went on to record music for a book soundtrack to Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy novel ‘The Way of Kings’.  Richard is a founding member of the cinematic pop band TREN, whose numerous projects include music for Tencent’s PUBG MOBILE video game and author Sariah Wilson’s novel ‘Moonstruck’.

Hollywood Christmas

By Richard Williams

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; The Holiday Season; Happy Holiday; The Christmas Song; White Christmas; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree; Here Comes Santa Claus; Jingle Bells; Frosty the Snowman; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Winter Wonderland; Let it Snow; Up on the Housetop; There's No Place Like Home; I'll Be Home For Christmas; Coming Home; Somewhere in My Memory; Someway, Somehow.

Bill Cunliffe, Doc Watkins & Louis Armstrong

by Joe Dimino
December 25, 2022

We begin our annual Christmas Hour of Neon Jazz with brilliant young composer Richard Williams and a song off his 2022 album Hollywood Christmas. Following that, we hear a live cut recorded by your trusty host at the historic Blue Room off 18 & Vine in Kansas City with pianist Charles Williams doing his best to ...

Yusef Lateef: An Alternative Top Ten Albums Blowing Cultural Nationalism Out Of The Water

by Chris May
November 18, 2020

A pioneer of global and modal jazz, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef is only beginning to have his importance in the history of the music properly acknowledged. After languishing off-catalogue for decades, much of his output is being made available once more. A treasure trove of great jazz is out there waiting to be rediscovered. ...

Impulse! Records: An Alternative Top 20 Zeitgeist Seizing Albums

by Chris May
July 2, 2020

There can be little argument that a jazz label ever captured a zeitgeist more completely than Impulse! did during its original 1960s incarnation. In the US, the fight back against white racism was cresting, opposition to the Vietnam war was growing, outrage over the assassinations of figures of hope such as President Kennedy, Martin Luther King ...

Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums

by Chris May
June 9, 2020

Along with Alfred Lion's Blue Note and Orrin Keepnews' Riverside, Bob Weinstock's Prestige was at the top table of independent New York City-based jazz labels from the early 1950s until the mid 1960s. Like those other two labels, Prestige built up a profuse catalogue packed with enduring treasures. Originally a record retailer, Weinstock ...

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 2

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2This is the second part of an article that looks back and reflects on experiences with live music in 2019. This part deals with a musician's legacy (Ornette Coleman) and continues with an examination of artistic developments and dynamics in the jazz field in a festival (Jazzfest Berlin) and related ...

Richard Williams: New Horn in Town

September 18, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I posted on Red Garland's sole recording session with Oliver Nelson in March 1961. The trumpeter on the date was Richard Williams, who many readers admired but knew little about. Curiously, Williams recorded only one leadership date—for Nat Hentoff's short-lived Candid label. It's called New Horn in Town and featured Leo ...

Screamin' The Blues

By Eric Dolphy

Label: Analogue Productions
Released: 1961
Track listing: Screamin' The Blues; March On, March On; The Drive; The Meetin'; Three Seconds; Alto-Itis;