Roy Williams

Williams began his career during the British trad jazz movement of the 1950s. He's not an early jazz specialist, however, but a versatile improviser who can play convincingly in a swing-derived style; his playing bears the influence of both Jack Teagarden and Urbie Green. Williams played with trumpeter Mike Peters and clarinetist Terry Lightfoot in the early '60s. He joined trumpeter Alex Welsh's Dixieland outfit in 1965, replacing Roy Crimmins. While with Welsh, Williams played with such prominent American jazz players as Wild Bill Davison, Bud Freeman, and Ruby Braff. Willia...