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Ben Williams at Black Cat
Courtesy of Black Cat | Posted on October 8, 2021
When
Thu, October 14, 2021
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Ben Williams
bass, electricAbout
Seatings: 7:00pm & 8:30pm. Doors open 30 minutes early.
$25/$35
For over ten years, GRAMMY Award-winning bassist, composer, and vocalist Ben Williams has steadily become one of the most acclaimed and versatile musicians in modern jazz.
First becoming a “Rising Star” when he won the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Bass Competition Award that landed him his first record-deal with Concord Records, Williams has performed/recorded with such giants as Pat Metheny, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, Nicholas Payton, and others.
As a leader, Williams revealed his talents as a keen composer and bandleader on his first two Concord Records albums, including State of the Art (2011), which received an impressive 4.5 Star Review in DownBeat Magazine and reached #1 on the iTunes and National Billboard charts and 2015’s Coming of Age. Twice Williams received the DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll Rising Star Award for Bass, in 2013 and 2015....