Harold Ivory Williams

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Harold Ivory Williams Jr. (born August 25, 1949 in Baltimore , † June 9, 2010 in Durham (North Carolina) ) was an American gospel , R&B and fusion musician (keyboard, piano, synthesizer).

Life

Williams was the son of the preacher Bishop Harold I. Williams and played the piano at the age of three. He began his musical career as a church organist with performances in his hometown and on the east coast of the USA. The first recordings were made with the gospel musician James Cleveland and his Gospel Music Workshop of America . He became known above all from the late 1960s through his collaboration with jazz and fusion musicians such as Miles Davis , on whose albums Big Fun and On the Corner he participated in 1972/73, as well as with Urszula Dudziak ( Urszula , 1976), Dave Liebman ( Tranquility of the Protective Aura , 1977), the studio band MFSB , George Duke , Michal Urbaniak ( Body English , Smiles Ahead 1977). He also appeared in Dudziak's disco hit Papaya (1975); In 1976 he gave concerts with Dudziak and Urbaniak in Germany. In later years he worked again as a church musician.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Miles Davis' album Big Fun at Answers.com
  2. ↑ Williams can be heard in the piece Ife (1972) as a pianist and sitar player. See Bielefeld catalog, 2001
  3. ↑ He played as a keyboard player alongside Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea .
  4. ↑ Information about Urszula Dudziak's album Urszula ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Music.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music.com
  5. ^ Note from Westfälischer Kunstverein
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Harold Ivory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Harold Ivory junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gospel, R&B and fusion musician (keyboard, piano, synthesizer)
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2010
Place of death Durham, North Carolina