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American music critic
Martin Tudor Hansford Williams (9 August 1924 – 11 or 12 April 1992)
[1] was an American jazz critic and writer.
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Education and service in the armed forces
Williams was born in
Richmond, Virginia . He attended
St. Christopher Episcopal Preparatory School , then entered the
U.S. Army during
World War II . After his military service during
World War II , which included
Battle of Iwo Jima , Williams first studied law, then literature at the
University of Virginia (
BA 1948), at the
University of Pennsylvania (
MA 1950) and at
Columbia University .
Career
Williams, beginning in the early 1950s, became a prolific jazz critic, contributing articles to
The Saturday Review ,
The New York Times ,
Harper's Magazine ,
Down Beat , and
The Jazz Review , which he founded in November 1958 with
Nat Hentoff , which often featured contributions by jazz musicians, including
Gunther Schuller ,
Dick Katz , and
Cecil Taylor .
The Jazz Review also featured contributions by other notable people, including
Sheldon Mayer and
Dan Morgenstern .
Williams authored many books on jazz, a collection of sixteen essays, profiling jazz musicians, in a book titled The Jazz Tradition.
[5] From 1971 to 1981 Williams headed the jazz and "American Culture Program" at the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington D.C. , where, in 1973, he compiled and wrote liner notes for
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz . In 1983, he,
Gunther Schuller , and the Smithsonian — in collaboration with
RCA Records — produced Big Band Jazz .
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[11] With animation historian
Michael Barrier , Williams co-edited A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (1982).
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References
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b The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz ,
Barry Dean Kernfeld ,
Stanley Sadie (eds.),
Macmillan
1st ed. (2 vols.) (1988);
OCLC
16804283
1st ed. (reissue, combining 2 vols.) (1994);
OCLC
30516743
2nd ed. (3 vols.) (2002);
OCLC
46956628
^
International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory , Adrian Gaster (1919–1989) (ed.),
Cambridge, England :
International Who's Who in Music
10th ed. (1984);
OCLC
11828662
12th ed. (1990);
OCLC
28065697
^ The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, (Williams is in Vol. 4 of 4),
H. Wiley Hitchcock &
Stanley Sadie (eds.),
Macmillan Publishers (1986); (see
Oxford Music Online );
OCLC
13184437 ,
OCLC
230202868
^
a
b Paula Morgan "Williams, Martin Tudor Hansford" in Barry Kernfeld (ed) The New Dictionary of Jazz , New York & London: Macmillan & St Martin's Press, 1994 [1988], p.1294 & p.xxxii
^ The Jazz Tradition, Martin Williams,
Oxford University Press (1970);
OCLC
66266
^
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Williams is in Vol. 6 of 6),
Macmillan ;
Schirmer
9th ed, Laura Diane Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001);
OCLC
44972043
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Who's Who in America ,
Marquis Who's Who ;
ISSN
0083-9396
38th ed., 1974–1975 (1974);
OCLC
23953115
39th ed., 1976–1977 (1976);
OCLC
23953086
40th ed., 1978–1979 (1978);
OCLC
4199915
41st ed., 1980–1981 (1980);
OCLC
476716124
42nd ed., 1982–1983 (1982);
OCLC
8505742
43rd ed., 1984–1985 (1984);
OCLC
11330908
46th ed., 1990–1991 (1990);
OCLC
22631411
^ Who Was Who in America, Vol. 10, 1989–1993,
Marquis Who's Who (1993);
OCLC
27962202
^ The Annual Obituary, 1992,
Detroit :
St. James Press (1993);
OCLC
29247249
^ Contemporary Authors,
Gale Research
Vols. 49–52 (1975);
OCLC
123619198
Vol. 137 (1992);
OCLC
123619198
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Biography Index ,
H.W. Wilson Co. ;
ISSN
0006-3053 (print media) &
OCLC
54897719 (online version)
Vol. 17: Sep. 1990–Aug. 1992 (1992)
Vol. 18: Sep. 1992–Aug. 1993 (1993);
OCLC
59569808
Vol. 19: Sep. 1993–Aug. 1994 (1994);
OCLC
31703875
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"Fun, Horror and Adventure" , New York Times , 5 September 1982
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