Jessica Williams, pianist and composer

Jessica Jennifer Williams, pianist and composer, is a three-time Grammy Nominee who started playing at the age of four and is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory. Dave Brubeck called her "one of the greatest pianists I have ever heard." She worked in the bands of Philly Joe Jones, Tony Williams, Stan Getz, Big Nick Nicholaus, Eddie Harris, Airto and Flora Purim, Charlie Rouse, John Abercrombie, Leroy Vinnegar, Charlie Haden, Red Mitchell, Bobby Hutcherson, and opened for Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, and many others. She has released 75 albums and over 350 compositions. She holds a Guggenheim Fellowship . . . more

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Jessica has multiple-segment lumbar spinal fusion surgery with bone grafts and internal metal instrumentation to treat a serious back deformity, and she still needs your assistance . . .

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• Listen to Jessica Williams on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR (full-length, 53 MB)
• "One of the greatest jazz pianists I have ever heard." - Dave Brubeck . . . more here
• "Jessica is a beautiful player." - McCoy Tyner . . . more here
• "The most important pianist to arrive since Bill Evans." - Alun Morgan, Gramophone . . . more here
• "A vibrant force on the contemporary music scene." - Rolling Stone . . .
• "She is one of the top jazz pianists of today, a powerful virtuoso, a brilliant solo player. She is a giant, consistently brilliant." - Scott Yanow, The All Music Guide . . .
• "In a word, she's a monster. Her technical mastery is equaled by her swing; her power matched by her dexterity." - Geraldine Wyckoff, Downbeat . . .
• "Her style and technique embrace a very original combination of wit, grace, introspection and white heat." - Harvey Siders, JazzTimes
• "She is simply a pianistic force of nature that will not be denied." - C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz . . .
• "She has established herself as the top solo pianist working today." - Dan McClenaghan, All ABout Jazz
• "Jessica is utterly magnificent . . . the most poetic of all living jazz pianists." - Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News . . .
• "This is easy. Jessica Williams doesn't make bad records." - JazzNow, Lawrence Brazier . . .
• Some of the "high, and inevitable low points" of Jessica Williams' musical career
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Email Jessica at jessicajwilliams@me.com

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