Ira "Buddy" Williams (born December 17, 1952, in New York City) [1] is an American jazz drummer. He has played with Grover Washington, Cedar Walton, David Sanborn, Kirk Whalum, Joe Sample, The Manhattan Transfer and others. [2] [3] [4] [5] Willams is a past member of the Saturday Night Live Band. [6]
With Nat Adderley
With Andy Bey
With Carla Bley
With Doug Carn
With George Freeman
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Dave Grusin
With Jaroslav Jakubovic
With Howard Johnson and Gravity
With Hugh Masekela
With Lee Ritenour
With David Sanborn
With Sonny Sharrock & Linda Sharrock
With Valerie Simpson
With Lonnie Liston Smith
With Bob Stewart
With McCoy Tyner
With Luther Vandross
With Cedar Walton
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. His first wife was singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he recorded and performed.
Cornell Luther Dupree was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He worked at various times with Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, and Steve Gadd, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, and wrote a book on soul and blues guitar, Rhythm and Blues Guitar. He reportedly recorded on 2,500 sessions.
Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.
Albert "Tootie" Heath is an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath.
Alan Dawson was an American jazz drummer and percussion teacher based in Boston.
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Anthony Jackson is an American bassist. Described as "one of the masters of the instrument", he has performed as a session musician and live artist. He is also credited with the development of the modern six-string bass, which he refers to as a contrabass guitar.
Charnett Moffett was an American jazz bassist. A consummate and versatile bassist, and composer, he was an apparent child prodigy. Moffett began playing bass in the family band, touring the Far East in 1975 at the age of eight. In the mid-1980s, he played with Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis.
Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time-keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the "Purdie Shuffle." He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
Ralph Anthony MacDonald was an American percussionist, steelpan virtuoso, songwriter, musical arranger, and record producer.
Eric Gale was an American jazz and jazz fusion guitarist.
Don Menza is an American jazz saxophonist.
Wayne Andre was an American jazz trombonist, best known for his work as a session musician.
Granville William "Mickey" Roker was an American jazz drummer.
Victor Lewis is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator.
Voyeur is the sixth studio album by American saxophonist David Sanborn, released on the Warner Bros. label in 1981.
Lincoln Goines is a double bassist and bass guitarist from Oakland, California.
David "Happy" Williams, is a US-based Trinidadian jazz double-bassist, who was a long-time member of Cedar Walton's group. Williams has also worked with many other notable musicians, including Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Stan Getz, Kenny Barron, Duke Jordan, Monty Alexander, Frank Morgan, Hank Jones, Charles McPherson, Larry Willis, George Cables, Abdullah Ibrahim, David "Fathead" Newman, Sonny Fortune, John Hicks, Louis Hayes, Jackie McLean, Clifford Jordan, Abbey Lincoln, Ernestine Anderson, and Kathleen Battle.
Chris Parker is an American jazz/jazz fusion drummer.
Night-Lines is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1984, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached No. 4 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.