Jazz in Its Time

The most knowledgeable, open-minded, and perceptive American jazz critic writing today. * Washington Post *
Read anything of Williams you can lay your hands on. * Washington Review *
Martin Williams is perhaps our greatest living jazz critic. * Gunther Schuller *
a rare combination of journalistic fluency, erudition, insight and taste ... He is one of the most serious of jazz commentators, with a distaste for adjectival writing and loose talk. * John Fordham, Q *
there is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *
The great thing about Martin Williams is that he actually writes about music - and, what's more, does it entertainingly. * Jazz *
There is a particular kind of pleasure to be found in reading the work of people who really know and love their subject. Martin Williams is one of them. He has the ability not only to inform and entertain, but to make you feel that you share his familiarity with the men and the music he writes about. * Sunday Times *