Davey Williams (musician)

Davey Williams ( born 1952 ) is an American jazz, rock and improvisation musicians.

Life and work

Williams played from the age of twelve guitar. He was a member of the rock band in high school ( 1968-70 ) and was a member during his studies of the band of Johnny Shines, with whom he occasionally also occurred in the late 1980s. In addition, he has appeared with the Salt & Pepper Soul Band Show ( 1971-74 ) and the University of Alabama 'B' jazz ensemble. He regularly played with LaDonna Smith, with whom he 1974 the duo TransMuseq and the same studio for music improvisation founded.

1978, Williams took his first tour of the USA next year followed his first European tour. Since the early 1980s he performed as a solo guitarist. He worked the mid-1980s with the Blue Band Trains In Trouble 1986 and joined the group Curlew by the musician George Cartwright, Tom Cora, Wayne Horvitz and Ann Rupel in which he served until the end of the 1990s.

He also worked together since the mid- 1980s with Col. Bruce Hampton and was in the early 1990s for a year member of the punk band Fuzzy Suns. As an improviser and performer of new music, he worked with the trio Say What! and musicians such as Ikue Mori Jim Staley and. Since the mid- 1970s Williams appeared at far more than 1,500 concerts and participated in over forty albums.

1981 Williams was one of the founders of the magazine for new improvised music the improvisor. He wrote ( 1987-1989 ) music critic for the Birmingham News, wrote music history article for the journal Experimental Musical Instruments, articles for various music magazines as well as liner notes for records and CDs. He is also the author of the cartoon book Which Came First: the Chicken or the Fried Fried Egg? .

Discography

  • Trans with LaDonna Smith, Theodore Bowen, Timothy Reed, Jim Hearon, 1977
  • Folk Music, LaDonna Smith, Ted Bowen, 1978
  • Jewel with Anne LeBaron, LaDonna Smith, 1979
  • Velocity with Andrea Centazzo, LaDonna Smith, 1979
  • Direct Waves with LaDonna Smith, 1980
  • USA tour with Andrea Centazzo, LaDonna Smith, 1980
  • Alchemical Rowdies with LaDonna Smith. Pippin Barnett, Danny Finney, Paul Watson, 1982
  • White Earth Streak with LaDonna Smith, Günter Christmann, Torsten Müller, 1983
  • Criminal Pursuits, solo album, 1985
  • Locales for Ecstasy with LaDonna Smith, Cinnie Cole, 1987
  • Dix Improvisations with LaDonna Smith, 1989
  • Say What! with Steve Noble Oren Marshall, 1992
  • Transmutating with Steve Noble Oren Marshall, 1993
  • Northern Dancer with Jim Staley, Ikue Mori, 1996
  • Charmed, I'm sure, solo album, 1997
  • Texas what Delicious, 2000
  • Humdinger with John Corbett, 2000
  • Numb Right, 2002
Experimental Musical Instruments (magazine) John Corbett (writer)
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