Joe Williams

Joe Williams
Biographie
Naissance
Décès
(à 80 ans)
Las Vegas
Sépulture
Palm Memorial Park Cemetery (d)
Époque
Nationalité
Formation
Englewood Technical Prep Academy (en)
Activités
Période d'activité
Autres informations
Labels
Genres artistiques
Distinctions

Joseph Goreed Williams, dit Joe, né le à Cordele, Géorgie, et mort le à Las Vegas, Nevada, est un chanteur américain de jazz.

Biographie

Discographie

Comme leader

  • Sings Everyday (Regent, 1952–1953 [rel. 1956])
  • Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Clef, 1955)
  • The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards (Verve, 1956)
  • At Newport (with Count Basie) (Verve, 1957)
  • One O'Clock Jump (with Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald) (Verve, 1957)
  • A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry (Roulette, 1958)
  • Memories Ad-Lib (with Count Basie) (Roulette, 1959)
  • Joe Williams Sings About You! (Roulette, 1959)
  • Everyday I Have the Blues (with Count Basie) (Roulette, 1959)
  • Joe Williams with Songs About 'That Kind of Woman' (Roulette, 1960)
  • Just the Blues (with Count Basie) (Roulette, 1960)
  • Sentimental & Melancholy (Roulette, 1961)
  • Together (with Harry "Sweets" Edison) (Roulette, 1961)
  • Have a Good Time with Joe Williams (Roulette, 1961)
  • Joe Williams Live! A Swingin' Night at Birdland (Roulette, 1962)
  • Jump for Joy (RCA Victor, 1963)
  • At Newport '63 (RCA Victor, 1963)
  • One Is a Lonesome Number (Roulette, 1963)
  • Me and the Blues (RCA Victor, 1964)
  • A New Kind of Love (Roulette, 1964)
  • We Three (with Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan) (Roulette, 1964)
  • The Song Is You (RCA Victor, 1965)
  • Scat Man Crothers & Joe Williams (Pickwick, 1965)
  • The Exciting Joe Williams (RCA Victor, 1966)
  • Alright, Okay (with Count Basie) (Verve [UK], 1966) compilation
  • Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (Solid State, 1967)
  • Something Old, New and Blue (Solid State, 1968)
  • Worth Waiting For... (Blue Note, 1970)
  • The Heart and Soul of Joe Williams and George Shearing (Sheba, 1971)
  • With Love (Temponic, 1972)
  • Joe Williams Live (with Cannonball Adderley) (Fantasy, 1973)
  • Prez & Joe: In Celebration of Lester Young (with Dave Pell's Prez Conference) (GNP Crescendo, 1979)
  • Nothin' but the Blues (Delos, 1983)
  • Then and Now (Bosco; Sea Breeze, 1984)
  • I Just Want to Sing (Delos, 1985)
  • Having the Blues Under European Sky (Denon, 1985)
  • Every Night: Live at Vine St. (Verve, 1987)
  • In Good Company (Verve, 1989)
  • That Holiday Feelin' (Verve, 1990)
  • Ballad and Blues Master [live] (Verve, 1992)
  • Live at Orchestra Hall, Detroit (Telarc, 1993)
  • Here's to Life (Telarc, 1994)
  • Feel the Spirit (Telarc, 1995)

Comme guest

  • Count Basie, A Night at Count Basie's (Vanguard, 1955)
  • Count Basie, Breakfast Dance and Barbecue [live] (Roulette, 1959)
  • Count Basie, Sing Along with Basie (avec Lambert, Hendricks & Ross) (Roulette, 1959)
  • The Capp-Pierce Juggernaut, Live at the Century Plaza (Concord Jazz, 1978)
  • Benny Carter, Benny Carter Songbook (MusicMasters, 1996)
  • Benny Carter, Benny Carter Songbook Volume II (MusicMasters, 1997)
  • Lena Horne, The Men in My Life (Three Cherries, 1988)
  • Milt Jackson, The Prophet Speaks (Qwest, 1994)
  • Marian McPartland, Piano Jazz with Joe Williams (Jazz Alliance, 1991)
  • Diane Schuur, Pure Schuur (GRP, 1991)

Récompenses

  • Grammy Awards 1985 : Grammy de la meilleure performance vocale jazz pour « Nothin' But The Blues »[1]

Liens externes

  1. « Joe Williams | Artist | GRAMMY.com », sur grammy.com (consulté le )
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