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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.[2]Table of ContentsBackground and career[edit]Discography[edit]As leader[edit]As sideman[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Background and career[edit]David Larry Williams[3] was born in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Trinidad.[4] His father, John “Buddy” Williams,[5] was a bass player and one of Trinidad’s best-known bandleaders of the 1940s and 1950s.[6][2][7] David started playing music at the age of five, initially on piano, then violin and steelpan.[2] He attended Tranquillity Boys School, Port of Spain,[4] and at the age of 12 began playing bass in earnest. As a teenager, he played pan in the Invaders steelband.[4][8] When his sister went to London on scholarship to study piano, David joined her there in 1962,[9] studying bass for a year at the London College of Music.[2] He recalls, “I started getting offers and gigs, I was working in nightclubs, you know, wherever I could play, pubs, it didn’t matter, and I had this desire, this thing to just get out there and play.”[9]Williams went to New York City in 1969 on what was intended to be a two-week visit but decided to stay on when he was offered work after sitting in on a gig with Grachan Moncur in place of Jimmy Garrison.[10] Following leads from Ron Carter, Williams began working with Gap and Chuck Mangione, and then went to Washington, DC, where he became Roberta Flack’s bass player for two years, also working with Donny Hathaway during that time.[2]Williams’ first album as a leader, Soul is Free, was released in 1979; one of the compositions from it, “Out of the Sheets, Into the Streets”, was used in the 1983 Eddie Murphy film Trading Places.[2][11][12]In 1982 Williams became a member of the Cedar Walton Trio alongside Billy Higgins (whom Williams first met around 1973),[13] on the death of Sam Jones, for whom he had occasionally subbed.[2] They became, in the words of Jazz Journal: “One of the most regarded trios in contemporary acoustic Jazz”.[14]In more recent years, Williams has also written and recorded music inspired by Trinidadian steelpan and calypso, notably the “pan jazz” album Reid, Wright and be Happy (2003), alongside Ron Reid and Orville Wright.[15]Discography[edit]As leader[edit]Soul is Free (AVI Records, 1978)Up Front (Timeless, 1986)Duo (Red, 1990) with Cedar Walton [originally released as Off Minor]Rhythm of the Street (Rots Records, 2000)Ping Pong Obsession (Rots Records, 2001)The Prize (Rots Records, 2002)The Spirit (Rots Records, 2003)Reid, Wright and Be Happy (Sanch, 2003)The Message (Rots Records, 2004)Move Your Furniture (Rots Records, 2004)The Licentious Hour (Rots Records, 2005)Feel the Passion (featuring Frankie McIntosh; 2010)As sideman[edit]With Herb Alpert and Hugh MasekelaWith Kenny BarronWith David BenoitHeavier Than Yesterday (AVI, 1977)With The BlackbyrdsWith George CablesOld Wine New Bottles (Atlas, 1982)Wonderful L. A. (Atlas, 1982)With Michael CarvinRevelation (Muse, 1991)Each One Teach One (Muse, 1994)With Cyrus ChestnutWith Freddy ColeLove Makes the Changes (Fantasy, 1998)With Charles DavisWith Roberta FlackChildren of The Night (Atlantic, 1970)With Sonny FortuneMonk’s Mood (Kennox, 1993)With Steve GrossmanLove is The Thing\t(Red, 1986)A Small Hotel (Dreyfus Jazz, 1993)With Slide HamptonRoots (Criss Cross, 1985)With Louis HayesWith David HazeltineModern Standards (Sharp Nine, 2005)With Billy HigginsWith Terumasa HinoBlue Smiles (Something Else, 1992)With Freddie HubbardWith Abdullah IbrahimWith Jermaine JacksonWith Elvin JonesWith Sam JonesWith Clifford JordanWith Duke JordanMurray Hill Caper (Spotlite, 1973)With JoyceLanguage and Love (Polygram, 1991)With David LasleyMissin’ Twenty Grand (EMI, 1982)With LiberaceMy Friends Call Me Lee (AVI, 1978)With Warne MarshWith Jackie McLeanNature Boy (Something Else, 1999)With Charles McPhersonBut Beautiful (Venus, 2003)With James Moody, Clark Terry and Elvin JonesSummit Meeting (Vanguard, 1977)With Frank MorganWith David “Fathead” NewmanWith One for AllKiller Joe (Venus Records, 2005)With Art PepperWith Dave PikeWith Ernest RanglinMemories of Barber Mack (Island, 1997)With Vanessa RubinWith Janis SiegelI Wish You Love (Telarc, 2002)With the Voices of East HarlemLive (Just Sun, 1973)Can You Feel It (1974)With Cedar WaltonThe Maestro (Muse, 1981)Eastern Rebellion 4 (Timeless, 1984)Cedar’s Blues (Red, 1985)The Trio 1 (Red, 1985)The Trio 2 (Red, 1985)The Trio 3 (Red, 1985)Cedar Walton (Timeless, 1985)Bluesville Time (Criss Cross, 1985)As Long as There’s Music (Muse, 1990 [1993])Mosaic (Music Masters, 1990 [1992]) as Eastern RebellionSimple Pleasure (Music Masters, 1993) as Eastern RebellionYou’re My Everything (Sweet Basil, 1993)Art Blakey Legacy (Sweet Basil, 1993)Live at the Village Vanguard (Music Masters, 1994) – as Eastern RebellionNever Let Me Go (Sweet Basil, 1994)Manhattan Afternoon (Criss Cross, 1994)Sweet Basil Trio (Sweet Basil, 1995)Iron Clad (Monarch, 1995)The Promise Land (HighNote, 2001)Midnight Waltz (Venus, 2005)One Flight Down (HighNote, 2006)The Bouncer (HighNote, 2011)With Larry WillisReferences[edit]^ a b Kernfeld, Barry (2001). “Williams, David”.  In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd\u00a0ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN\u00a0978-1-56159-239-5.\u200e^ a b c d e f g “Biography”. Davidhappywilliams.com. Retrieved April 28, 2014.^ “David Williams”. Discogs. Retrieved April 28, 2014.^ a b c Ronald C. Emrit, David Williams”. Best of Trinidad.^ “Le Jazz Primitif from Trinidad – Rupert Clemendore and John Buddy Williams” (1961). Smithsonian Folkways.^ Herbie Miller, “Syncopating Rhythms: Jazz and Caribbean Culture”, p. 24.^ “NEA Jazz Master: Pianist Cedar Walton”. Jazmuzic.com. May 2, 2012. Retrieved April 28, 2014.^ Ray Funk and Jeannine Remy, “Invaders: the pan yard under the breadfruit tree”, Caribbean Beat,  Issue 101 (January\/February 2010).^ a b Chantal Esdelle (May 29, 2010). “Hanging With Happy”. Chantalesdelle.wordpress.com. Retrieved April 28, 2014.^ Ethan Iverson, “Interview with David Williams (for Cedar Walton)” Archived 2015-01-19 at the Wayback Machine, Do the Math, November 11, 2013.^ “Dave Williams Out of the sheets”, 5 March 2011. YouTube.^ “Trading Places (1983) Soundtrack”. RingosTrack.^ Bill Milkowski, “Drum ‘n’ Bassists”, JazzTimes, April 2000.^ Mark Gilbert, Jazz Journal.^ Mark Fraser, “Ron reads the music right”, Trinidad Express, April 8, 2013.External links[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/david-happy-williams-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"David “Happy” Williams – Wikipedia"}}]}]