Tom Williams (jazz musician)

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Tom Williams (born December 4, 1962 in Baltimore ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , composition, also drums).

Live and act

Williams began playing the trumpet in 1968. He also learned drums in high school. In the early 1980s he studied at Towson State University , with whose Jazz Ensemble he made his first recordings in 1981/82. In the following years he went on tour with Ray Charles , belonged to the Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Mercer Ellington , toured with the musical Sophisticated Ladies and went to the studio with Jimmy Heath ( Peer Pleasure , 1987). Then he played as a professional soldier as a soloist in the bands Jazz Ambassadors and Army Blues of the US Army.

Since the 1990s he worked a. a. with Steve Wilson ( New York Summit , 1991), Donald Ray Brown , Ron Holloway , Rob Bargad , the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and with Larry Willis ( A Tribute to Someone , 1993). He recorded his debut album in New York in 1991 in a quintet line-up ( Javon Jackson , Kenny Barron , Peter Washington , Kenny Washington ) ( Introducing Tom Williams on Criss Cross Jazz ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1981 and 2001. Williams' trumpet playing is stylistically rooted in the hardbop tradition. Williams teaches jazz trumpet at the University of Maryland in Baltimore .

Prizes and awards

In 1990 Williams was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk competition ; he came in second place. In 2014 he received the Benny Golson Jazz Master Award .

Discographic notes

  • Straight Street (Criss Cross Jazz, 1993), with Gary Thomas , Kevin Hays , Peter Washington, Kenny Washington

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Trumpet land ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trumpetland.ning.com
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 14, 2016)
  3. ↑ Jazz Journal International 1999, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore