Roy Williams

Williams began his profession during the Uk trad jazz motion from the 1950s. He’s no early jazz expert, nevertheless, but a flexible improviser who are able to play convincingly within a swing-derived design; his playing bears the impact of both Jack port Teagarden and Urbie Green. Williams used trumpeter Mike Peters and clarinetist Terry Lightfoot in the first ’60s. He became a member of trumpeter Alex Welsh’s Dixieland clothing in 1965, changing Roy Crimmins. While with Welsh, Williams used such prominent American jazz players as Crazy Expenses Davison, Bud Freeman, and Ruby Braff. Williams remaining Welsh in 1978 and became a member of Humphrey Lyttlelton’s music group. He remained with Lyttelton for four years. In the ’80s he started working freelance, using such music artists as clarinetist Peanuts Hucko, tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton, trumpeter Bent Persson, and Williams’s ex lover in the Alex Welsh Music group, clarinetist John Barnes. He also performed using the World’s Greatest Jazz Music group. Among Williams’s recordings are Gruesome Twosome (Dark Lion, 1980) and Interplay (Sine, 1996), both with Barnes. In 1998 Williams co-led a swing-oriented quintet day with saxophonist Danny Moss; the program created Steamers! for the Nagel-Heyer label. As of this composing Williams remains a favorite presence for the United kingdom mainstream jazz picture.