Patrick Williams

A major American composer and arranger active in the film industry beginning in the 1960s, Patrick Williams occasionally led projects of his own. Raised in Connecticut, he started out learning classical trumpet, and played in the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. At the same time, in high school, Williams led his own swing-oriented jazz band. He then studied at Duke University (where he led the Duke Ambassadors) and Columbia University, where he studied music composition and conducting. Active in recording studios as a young man, he piled up many credits while in New York from 1961 ...