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Music. Tony Williams (drummer) (1945–1997), American jazz drummer. Tony Williams (English musician) (born 1947), English bassist in Stealers Wheel and Jethro Tull. Tony Williams (singer) (1928–1992), American lead singer with The Platters. The WRLDFMS Tony Williams, American R&B and soul singer.
Mar 15, 2022 · Born Anthony Tillmon Williams in Chicago in 1945 and raised in Boston, Tony Williams is regarded as one of the most important, inventive, and influential jazz drummers since the 1960s. Regarded as a pioneer of jazz fusion, he launched his career with trumpeter Miles Davis, who was quoted as saying, “A drummer like Tony comes around only once ...
May 29, 2018 · Tony Williams. 1945-1997. Jazz drummer, bandleader, composer. An endlessly inventive drummer, bandleader, and composer, Tony Williams was a major force behind the expansion of jazz from its acoustic origins to the vast new
Feb 26, 1997 · Tony Williams, a drummer whose innovations made him one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last half-century, died on Sunday at the Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif. He was...
May 30, 2021 · Anthony Tillmon Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame in the band of trumpeter Miles Davis and pioneered jazz fusion. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986.
Aug 18, 2011 · The Tony Williams Lifetime was a very important band in the history of both jazz and rock music. I’ve always loved playing and studying both genres, and Tony was the best rhythmic mediator, combining these styles in an intelligent, extremely skilful manner. Tony had the technique of a jazz drumming master and the sound and groove of a rock ...
Aug 15, 1992 · Tony Williams, the original lead singer of the Platters whose renditions of "Only You" and "The Great Pretender" propelled the R&B group to stardom in the 1950s, died yesterday at age 64.
