Latest Release
- 4 JULY 2023
- 23 Songs
- Jazz Foundations, Vol. 45: Joe Williams · 1995
- A Man Ain't Supposed to Cry · 1958
- Count Basie Swings - Joe Williams Sings · 1955
- When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 1: Walk Right In · 1935
- Presenting Joe Williams & Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra · 1966
- Christmas Remixed 2 · 2004
- Presenting Joe Williams & Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra · 1966
- Everyday I Have the Blues - 50 Classic Tracks · 1961
- Ella Fitzgerald: Legendary Recordings · 1957
- Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues In the Segregation Era · 1966
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- The definitive template for the male jazz singer.
- His world-class jazz pipes aged like fine wine.
- 2022
Live Albums
- 2019
- 2007
Appears On
- Vulgar Desolation
- Vulgar Desolation
- Count Basie and His Orchestra
- Milt Jackson with Joshua Redman & Joe Williams
- Count Basie
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 December 1918
- GENRE
- Jazz