Selected Performances

Artistic Research, Performances and Installations

  • Terri Lyne Carrington’s Presents Music for Abolition. Keyboard Improvisation on Nicholas Payton’s composition “Freedom Is No Fear,” Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, June 8, 2023 (Other artists in the program included Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Camila Cortina Bello, Morgan Guerin, Nicole Mitchell, Elena Pinderhughes, Dianne Reeves, Matthew Stevens and Carl “Kokayi” Walker)

  • Falling to Rise Again, Solo Piano Performance, April in Santa Cruz Festival of New Music, San Francisco, CA, the Lab, April 30, 2023

  • Model Citizen, Here I Stand. Multidisciplinary Performance Exhibition with Crystal Z. Campbell, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 7th, 2018-January 18th, 2019

  • Piano performance in Studio Venezia by French Artist Xavier Veilhan who presented his work at the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, French Pavilion, 2017

  • You are mine. I see now, I’m a have to let you go. Suné Woods, Fred Moten & James Gordon Williams. Light Work, September 13, 2017

  • Outlaw Culture Music. Syracuse University, Community Folk Art Center, November 19, 2015

  • Solo piano improvisation for the world premiere of Cauleen Smith’s Crow Requiem & Speculations: Science Fiction, Chronopolitics, & Social Change. Everson Museum, April 7, 2015

  • Solo Feedback Piano Performance, Malmö Conservatory of Music, Sweden, 2011

  • Solo Feedback Piano Performance, UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center, 2011

  • Gregory Porter, Idyllwild Jazz Festival, 2010

  • Exceptional Musicians-Essential Music 10th Anniversary, Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA, 2010 

  • Anthony Davis and James Gordon Williams in a Duo Piano recital, Mandeville Recital Hall, UC San Diego, 2008

  • Charli Persip Trio, The Jazz Museum of Harlem, 2008

  • Masterclass & Concerto, Sull, Improvvisazione Jazz, PN Bar & Café, in Pordenone, Italy, September 18, 2008 

  • Solo piano concert, The Istituto di Musica Della Pedemontana, Aviano, Italy, 2008

  • James Gordon Williams and Mark Dresser Duo, La Jolla Library, 2008

  • Intrinsic Evolution (2008) with Charli Persip, 2007 

  • Charli Persip Quintet, Jazz Mobile, 2007

  • James Gordon Williams Quartet, Lenox Lounge, 

  • James Gordon Williams Quartet, The Stone, 2007

  • James Gordon Williams, John Birks Gillespie Auditorium, New York City, 2006

  • Charli Persip Trio, Smoke Jazz Club,2006

  • James Gordon Williams Quartet, Smalls Jazz Club, 2006 

  • Miles Griffith Quartet, Jazz Standard, 2006

  • Charli Persip Supersound, Minton's Playhouse, 2006 

  • Charli Persip Supersound, Birdland Jazz Club, 2005 

  • Greg Osby 5, Village Vanguard, 2005

  • Greg Osby 5, Green Mill Jazz Club, Chicago, 2005

  • James Gordon Williams Trio, Knitting Factory, New York City, 2005

  • Joseph Jarman Ensemble, Vision Festival, New York City, 2005

  • Charli Persip Supersound Band, New Jersey Jazz Festival, 2005

  • Greg Osby 5, Atina Jazz Festival, Italy, 2005

  • Greg Osby 5, Jazz à La Seyne, France, 2005

  • Greg Osby 5, Langnau Nights, Switzerland, 2005 

  • Greg Osby 5, Malta Jazz Festival, 2004

  • Charli Persip Supersound Band, Ellington Jazz Festival, 2004

  • James Gordon Williams Trio, Celebration of Tom Otterness, Symphony Space, 2003

  • Unrepeatable Life, JGWMUSIC Records, 2003

  • Joseph Jarman Ensemble, "Dignified Dissonances In The History of Dirt!," Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, The Community Church of New York, 2003

  • James Gordon Williams Duo, Birdland Jazz Club, 1997 - 1998