Coming Of Age Ben Williams
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
16.04.2015
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Black Villain Music 04:29
- 2 Strength And Beauty 05:28
- 3 Half Steppin' 07:23
- 4 Voice Of Freedom (For Mandela) 04:47
- 5 Toy Soldiers 08:08
- 6 Lost & Found 06:21
- 7 Forecast 08:15
- 8 The Color Of My Dreams 08:07
- 9 Smells Like Teen Spirit 03:21
- 10 Toy Soldiers 02:44
- 11 Coming Of Age 07:53
Info for Coming Of Age
Die besten Bands haben immer etwas, das man nicht erzwingen kann: musikalischen Scharfsinn und die Bereitschaft durch Musik zu kommunizieren. Genau das ist es auch, was “Coming Of Age”, das zweite Soloalbum des Bassisten Ben Williams, ausmacht. Das Album spiegelt den Sound eines Musikers wider, der eine wirkliche, tiefgehende Beziehung zu einigen der besten jungen Kollegen der New Yorker Szene unterhält.
Nachdem er 2009 den angesehenen Wettbewerb des Thelonious Monk Institute gewonnen hatte, machte sich Williams mit Feuereifer daran, das damals gegebene “jugendliche Versprechen” einzulösen. 2011 legte Williams mit “State of Art” sein Debütalbum vor, das hervorragende Kritiken erhielt. Im Anschluss an die Veröffentlichung tourte er mit seiner Band Sound Effect kreuz und quer durch die Welt. Und er schaffte es, den heftig umworbenen Platz des Bassisten in Pat Methenys Unity Band zu ergattern. “Bens Zugang zur Musik ist von Furchtlosigkeit und Offenheit geprägt”, lobt Metheny Williams. “Das ist eine wunderbare Kombination von Fähigkeiten.”
Als Mitglied des fabelhaften NEXT Collective zeigte er bereits 2013 sein grosses Können, er kann in einem Atemzug mit dem Trompeter Christian Scott genannt werden.
Ben Williams, Bass, Sound-Effekte
Gäste:
Goapele, Gesang (Voice of Freedom - for Mandela)
Christian Scott, Trompete
Stefon Harris, Vibraphon
W. Ellington Felton, emcee
Benjamin James Williams
is a native of Washington, DC. He also performs on electric bass and piano as well. His musical influence is rooted in various genres of music including jazz, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and classical. Ben is a recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Music where he majored in Music Education with an emphasis in Jazz, studying with Rodney Whitaker and Jack Budrow. He plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School.
Ben has won several competitions and scholarship awards. He is a two-time winner of the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival; a two-time winner of the DC Public School Piano Competition; a 2002 recipient of the Duke Ellington Society Annual Scholarship Award. Most recently, Ben won first place in the 2005 International Society of Bassists (ISB) competition in the category of jazz.
Ben has performed both nationally and internationally with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Cyrus Chestnut, Ron Blake, Stefon Harris, Karreim Riggins, Hamiett Bluiette, James Williams, Bobby Watson, Winard Harper, Buster Williams, John Hicks, Anthony Wonsey, Me’Shelle N’degeocello, Gene Lake, Wycliffe Gordon, and Delfeayo Marsalis to name a few. He has also performed with opening acts for artists such as John Legend, Kirk Franklin, and Eric Roberson...
Booklet for Coming Of Age