Jessica Williams was a unique artist with an evocative touch at the piano. She passed away March 12 at the age of 73. She was a restless person who was born in Baltimore, studied classical piano, and built her career as house pianist at Keystone Korner in San Francisco where she backed many different international soloists including Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz. She played major jazz festivals all over the world and spent her last two decades as a performer living in the Pacific Northwest. She received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. She performed frequently around the Pacific Northwest and this program will feature Jessica Williams playing solo, with trio and with groups in Portland, Victoria and Seattle.
Pianist Jessica Williams remembered on Jazz Northwest
Jimmy Katz
