Howard Williams

The Howard Williams Big Band: Live at the Garage

by Jack Bowers
August 26, 2005

Here's an interesting big band release that features some rather spirited blowing and a quite appropriate title. If someone had asked me, sight unseen, where it was recorded, I'd have said, “Probably in a garage. And so it was, hence the name Live at the Garage, which is apparently a nightspot on New York City's Seventh Avenue. More's the pity, as the band--what one can hear of it--is reasonably sharp, boasting a number of local heavyweights in the starting lineup, ...