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In a career spanning four decades drummer Jeff Williams' musical associates have included Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman and Lookout Farm, Joe Lovano, Paul Bley, Bill McHenry, Ethan Iverson, Tony Malaby, and many more. During the 1990's Jeff performed with his own quintet and released two CDs of original compositions: Coalescence (SteepleChase) and Jazzblues (Cathexis). Since 2007 he has been based both in New York and London. In the UK Jeff has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone, and has toured with McHenry, Konitz, the Phil Robson/Dave Liebman Quartet, and Martin Speake's Change of Heart (with Bobo Stenson). Jeff has also collaborated with The Hans Koller Quartet, Sextet and Big Band, Mike Gibbs Big Band, Nikki Iles, Kit Downes, Alex Merritt and Barry Green. Jeff's UK Quintet includes Finn Peters-alto saxophone and flute, Josh Arcoleo-tenor saxophone, Phil Robson-guitar and Sam Lasserson-bass. The Quintet will perform at the July 2013 Festival Amazonas Jazz in Brazil and the London Jazz Festival in November. In New York Jeff performs regularly with his US Quartet, featuring Duane Eubanks, John O'Gallagher and John Hébert. The group toured the United Kingdom in May 2012 and recorded The Listener.New The new CD: The Listener recorded live at the Vortex Jazz Club in London
Available everywhere June 4th on Whirlwind Recordings Ltd.
For more information and to hear sample tracks: http://www.whirlwindrecordings.com/the-listener/
E-mail: Jeff@willfulmusic.com
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Listen to sample tracks
from Jeff's CD Another Time
**** Best CDs of 2012 -Downbeat
"Jeff Williams has honed a sound that seamlessly blends a sinewy, propulsive rhythmic sense with a masterful appreciation of space and atmosphere. On Another Time, Williams leads a remarkable group through a series of original compositions that are prefect vehicles for the veteran drummer's singular approach, as well as the quartet's consistently inspired improvisations."
--Matthew Miller The New York City Jazz Record
**** "...The ease of movement between ambiguously floating rhythms and snappy polyrhythmic swing is seductive...these elegantly intricate deliberations make for absorbing contemporary jazz."
--John Fordham The Guardian
All About Jazz.com Editors' 10 Best CDs of 2011
CD of the Year (2011) - UK Jazz Radio.com
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Duane Eubanks
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Watch the group in action on YouTube:
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Jeff's upcoming performances:
- 2nd of May w/Martin Speake and Mike Outram, The Spin, Oxford, UK
- 3rd of May w/Martin Speake, Royal Festival Hall foyer lunchtime concert, London
- 5th of May w/Mike Gibbs Big Band, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, UK
- 9th of May w/Mike Gibbs Big Band, Watermill, Dorking, UK
- 12th of May w/Leo Genovese, Freddies Back Room, NYC
- 20th of May: Jeff Williams UK Quintet w/Finn Peters, Josh Arcoleo, Phil Robson, Sam Lasserson, The Oxford, Kentish Town, London
- 24th of May w/Sam Crowe, Whirlwind Recordings Jam, Pizza Express, London
- 1st of June w/Martin Speake, Ajani, London
- 4th of June: Jeff Williams UK Quintet (with special guest Kit Downes), Finn Peters, Josh Arcoleo, Sam Lasserson, Vortex Jazz Club, London. Celebrating the UK release of The Listener
- 5th of June w/Martin Speake, 606 Club (late set), London
- 6th of June w/Martin Speake, Lauderdale House, London
- 14th of June w/Martin Speake, Olivers, Greenwich, London
- 15th of June w/Alex Merritt Quartet, Olivers, Greenwich, London
- 6th of July: Jeff Williams Group w/Duane Eubanks, John O'Gallagher, Phil Robson, Smalls Jazz Club, NYC Celebrating the US release of The Listener
- 26th of July: Jeff Williams UK Quintet w/Finn Peters, Josh Arcoleo, Phil Robson, Sam Lasserson, Festival Amazonas Jazz, Manaus, Brazil
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