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Grammy awards for jazz 2012

Unsurprisingly the Grammy awards went to a bunch of well known names. All of the nominees are well deserving of recognition, but sometimes I’d like to see these Arts Industry awards do more to boost relatively new talent. Jazz in the Grammys 2012 Tweet

My distributor is indisposed

GDC, formerly Scandinavia’s largest distributor of CDs and other recorded media has gone into receivership. Hundreds of record labels small and large are now furiously rushing about trying to find alternative ways of getting their product to the customer. Unfortunately. I, and many other independent jazz musicians are not in a position of power. As a result I have been [...]

My latest Jazz CD Project

I’m working on a set of new Jazz compositions for my next CD. The focus will be on Jazz Blues, Soul Jazz and Cool Jazz. The fantastic Danish vibes player Jakob Svensson has agreed to work with me on the recording. I’m very excited about it. Sign up to my newsletter for information about new [...]

Swing 41 in Oscar nominated film

I am happy to say that midnight in Paris has just been nominated for four Oscars in this years (2012) Oscar Awards. This of course means that my music is in an Oscar nominated film. I didn’t write the music of course, but I recorded, produced and released the CD Swing 41 on which I [...]

Online Jazz Shop

You can buy physical copies of my Jazz CD’s  – The Gipsy Jazz CD Swing 41, or About Time – a CD of my own jazz compositions – by visiting my Jazz webshop. If digital downloads are your thing you can visit iTunes to download either Swing 41 or About Time by Peter Williams 2econd Nature [...]