John Thomas Williams, a spirited jazz pianist strongly influenced by Bud Powell and Horace Silver who recorded with the Stan Getz Quintet in the early 1950s before recording his two sole leadership albums for EmArcy in 1954 and '55, died on December 15. He was 89.
Born in Windsor, Vt., Williams began as a church organist. In the mid-1940s, he joined the …
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