Gareth Williams
Biography Gareth Williams
Gareth Williams
One of the most intensely creative, dynamic and exciting performers on the UK scene, Gareth Williams has been receiving increasing critical and public acclaim since the 90s: winner of the piano category in the 2013 British Jazz Awards.
He came to prominence as pianist for singer Claire Martin and as keyboard player/MD for jazz hip-hop band Us3. He has worked with many international jazz greats, including Art Farmer, George Coleman, Bud Shank, James Moody, Dave Liebman and Jerry Bergonzi, plus top British musicians such as Jim Mullen, Martin Taylor, Tommy Smith, Gwyneth Herbert and Iain Ballamy. For the last 15 years, he has toured the world with the late Pee Wee Ellis.His albums, THREE (live at Ronnie Scott’s in 2001) and Shock! (Linn Records, 2009), were hugely successful. His latest album, Short Stories is out now on Miles Music. “Williams is a hugely gifted pianist, with an apparently endless fund of ideas” (Dave Gelly, The Observer). “A prodigiously talented pianist… a joyous, uncompromising celebration of sophistication, musicality, muscularity…” (Mojo Magazine).
