Buster Williams

An enduring jazz bassist, composer, and educator, Buster Williams has flourished through many periods of changing fashions in jazz due to his fat, authoritative, dark tone and his highly refined technique on the acoustic bass. Though he began his recording career in the early 1960s with Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Wilson, and the Jazz Crusaders, his earliest celebrity was as a member of Herbie Hancock's exploratory Mwandishi Sextet from 1969 to 1973, doubling on acoustic and electric basses -- sometimes attached to electronic effects devices. He began reco...