Latest Release
- 4 JUL 2023
- 23 Songs
- The Greatest!! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards · 1955
- The Magic of Christmas · 1996
- Together / Have a Good Time · 1990
- Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings · 1956
- In Good Company · 1989
- Count Basie Swings & Joe Williams Sings · 1955
- In Good Company · 1959
- Songs About That Kind of Woman · 1960
- What Do You Know Joe? (with The Basie Orchestra) · 2016
- The Magic of Christmas · 1996
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- The definitive template for the male jazz singer.
- His world-class jazz pipes aged like fine wine.
Live Albums
- 2023
Appears On
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
- Milt Jackson with Joshua Redman & Joe Williams
About Joe Williams
Joe Williams’s hickory-smoked croon could convey the bluest blues and the sweetest joys, a flexibility that served him well as the lead singer of Count Basie’s band in the 1950s. At a time when Basie was at a low commercial ebb, Williams’s presence rejuvenated the live act. The singer also had a charting solo hit with Memphis Slim’s “Everyday I Have the Blues,” certainly one of the more popular renditions of the oft-covered standard. In the ‘60s Williams worked mostly as a solo artist, often accompanied by top-flight jazzmen, including Harry Edison, Clark Terry, and Cannonball Adderley. He continued to tour until his death in 1999.
- HOMETOWN
- Cordele, GA, United States
- BORN
- 12 de diciembre de 1918
- GENRE
- Jazz