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Ben Williams Quartet at Vermont Jazz Center

Courtesy of Robby Roiter | Posted on April 15, 2016

Where

Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hl # 222
Brattleboro, VT
Map
802-254-9088

When

Sat, May 14, 2016
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Ben Williams
bass, electric
Alex Wintz
guitar
Marcus Strickland
clarinet, bass

About


Williams displays world-class bass playing, and an original approach to arranging and youthful vitality.

He won the 2009 Thelonious Monk Competition on bass and a Grammy for work in Pat Metheny's Unity Band, and was voted top overall rising star in Downbeat's 2015 Critic's Poll.

He uses wide ranging musical structures, references and instrumentation to great effect: from a heartfelt tribute to Nelson Mandela to lush string quartet, a spoken word tribute to Lee Morgan, an acoustic bass cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Williams appears with Don Cheadle in the new movie, "Miles Ahead."...

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