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Joe Williams (born Joseph Goreed; December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer. He sang with big bands, such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and with small combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra and sometimes worked as an actor.
Mar 31, 1999 · SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. Joe Williams, considered by many to be the finest jazz singer of his generation, died on a Las Vegas street after collapsing while apparently trying to walk home from...
Joe Williams, whose urbane bass-baritone and suavely heartbroken songs made him one of the most important singers in jazz, died on Monday in Las Vegas, Nev. He was 80 years old.
Apr 25, 2024 · Joe Williams (born Dec. 12, 1918, Cordele, Ga., U.S.—died March 29, 1999, Las Vegas, Nev.) was an American singer known for his mastery of jazz, blues, and ballads and for his association with Count Basie in the 1950s. Williams moved from Georgia to Chicago at the age of three.
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Joe Williams was an American singer known for singing jazz, blues and ballads in a smooth baritone voice. He was born in Cordele, Georgia and raised in Chicago, where he formed and sang...
Apr 6, 2014 · Joe Williams seemed to have been a popular figure in Chicago jazz ever since anybody could remember. When he was only twenty he sang with clarinet great Jimmie Noone's band on the radio, and though he toured with several big bands in the years to come — most prominently with Lionel Hampton's band, in which he and Dinah Washington sang duets ...
Mar 6, 2021 · Growing up listening to Ethel Waters’s diction-perfect torch songs and Big Joe Turner’s sunny, extrovert, humor-tinged shouting, Joe Williams has turned into the rare singing Renaissance Man capable of fusing blues and jazz and pop aesthetics in one coherent musical image – an achievement that allowed him to become the ideal vocal soloist ...
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