Pianist, bandleader, producer and educator James Williams died Tuesday ... College of Music in Boston from 1972–77, Williams made his name in jazz circles as a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz ...

James Williams was an American jazz pianist. Williams began playing piano at age 13, and served as the organist at the Eastern Star Baptist Church in Memphis for six years early in his career. He ...

Mary Lou Williams’s “Zodiac Suite” has long been popular in its jazz-trio form ... and a restoration by the scholar-pianist James Dapogny premiered in 2002. After discovering a copy of ...