Roy Williams (musician)

Roy Williams (born March 7, 1937, Salford) is an English jazz trombonist.

Williams learned piano as a youth; he didn't pick up trumpet until he was eighteen years old. He served in the military in the late 1950s, then joined the trad jazz group of Mike Peters and worked with Terry Lightfoot in the early 1960s. In 1965 he became a member of Alex Welsh's band, which accompanied Ruby Braff, Wild Bill Davison, and Bud Freeman. He remained with Welsh until 1978, also collaborating with bandmate John Barnes in a side ensemble. He then worked with Humphrey Lyttelton (1978-1983), and in 1980 played with the Pizza Express All Stars and Benny Waters.

He left Lyttelton's ensemble in 1983 and was a regular performer at festivals in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a sideman for Doc Cheatham, Jim Galloway, Buddy Tate, the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, Peanuts Hucko, Bent Persson, Bob Rosengarden, Stan Barker, Bob Wilber, Digby Fairweather, Pete Strange, and Keith Smith.

References

• "Roy Williams". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.