American music critic
Martin Tudor Hansford Williams (9 August 1924 – 11 or 12 April 1992)[ 1] [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
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 combat in the 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 The Jazz Review Nat Hentoff , which often featured contributions by jazz musicians, including Gunther Schuller , Dick Katz , and Cecil Taylor . The Jazz Review 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] Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. , where, in 1973, he compiled and wrote liner notes for The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz .Gunther Schuller , and the Smithsonian — in collaboration with RCA Records — produced Big Band Jazz .[ 4] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] Michael Barrier , Williams co-edited A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (1982).[ 12]
References
^ a 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 ,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 Macmillan ; Schirmer 9th ed, Laura Diane Kuhn (ed.) (born 1953) (2001); OCLC 44972043 ^ 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 ^ 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 ^ "Fun, Horror and Adventure" , New York Times , 5 September 1982
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