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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, electricJohn Davis
drumsAlex Wintz
guitarWillerm Delisfort
pianoMarcus Strickland
clarinet, bassAbout
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."...