Tony Williams News

All About Jazz is celebrating Tony Williams' birthday today! Tony Williams Born in Chicago and growing up in Boston, Williams began studies with master drummer Alan Dawson at an early age and began playing professionally at the age of 13 with saxophonist Sam Rivers.

Zevious is devious. It may look like your everyday electric jazz trio , but Zevious is anything but typical.

Zevious is a strong guitar, bass and drums trio that takes the hard edged fusion on seventies stalwarts like The Mahavishnu Orchestra and Tony Williams Lifetime and combines it with the post-modern aesthetic of progressive rock and modern jazz.

Track Where's the Captain? Artist/Band Zevious Duration 5:10 Album After the Air Raid Record Label Cuneiform Description "The music of Zevious shrewdly juxtaposes order and its opposite: structural intensity pushed to its breaking point in the most appealing way.

Jazz-fusion giants unite to pay tribute to Tony Williams, one of the great jazz/fusion/rock drummers of any generation.

The Legendary Drummer Billy Cobham's new CD Palindrome is set to be released at the beginning of 2010.

Cindy Blackman had been playing drums for seven years when, at age 15, she first heard the phenomenal drumming of Tony Williams on a couple of Miles Davis albums recorded a decade earlier, when Williams himself was a teenager.

Plus Bonus Dvd - Miles Davis Quintet: Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams / Live In Europe '67 - Only Video Of This Group Ever Commercially Released All Albums - Most Recent Expanded Editions Of '90s And '00s With Bonus Material, Others Heard In Original Form - Packaged In Japanese Style Mini-Lp Cd And Double-Cd Jackets, ...

The kick-off of "Jazz for Seniors" at the Spring Garden Senior Center on Friday had the center's staff and members moving and grooving to the sounds of the Tony Williams Jazz Quartet.

The Detroit International Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2009.

Jessica Williams is a well-known and highly respected pianist and composer who has deep roots in the Jazz Tradition.

Each year, Hot August Nights provides free shows from yesteryear's popular entertainers, and this year is no exception.

Two new shows are set to be unveiled at the Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford this month.

He played with a the drive and flair of Tony Williams, never settling in one groove for too long, constantly steering the rhythm in a new direction while maintaining the pulse.

When I read about this album a while back on Stef's blog I knew I wanted to check it out.

June 6 1936 Lead singer of the Four Tops, Levi Stubbs, is born in Detroit, Michigan.

In the aftermath of the Sacha Baron Cohen and Eminem stunt at the MTV Movie Awards, all the Internet was abuzz over what was real and what wasn't. MOVIES THEATRE Ben's Trumpet's rehearsal photos Rachel Isdora's Caldecott winning children's book "Ben's Trumpet" is now an original jazz ballet from Tony Williams.

It is difficult to summarize the BalletRox evening in their first collaboration with the Wheelock Family Theatre because so many wonderful things are happening in just one and a half hour.

The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath Sunday night with "Twilight" taking five trophies, including best movie.

Adam Lambert deliberately avoided talking about his sexuality while he was on popular television show "American Idol" - nevertheless stirring controversy due to the fact that he reportedly posted photos of himself kissing other men on the web.