Eugene Bernard Williams (May 18, 1918 – May 5, 1948) was an American jazz writer who, in 1939, co-founded Jazz Information,[1] and in 1942, co-produced Bunk Johnson.[a]
In June 1938, as a senior at Columbia, Williams was one of two recipients to win the Philolexian Prize for excellence in prose and poetry. The Philolexian Society was, at the time, one of the three oldest literary societies in America. Williams received the prose prize for his essay, "The Elements of Jazz". The other recipient, Ralph Toledano, president of the Philolexian Society, won the poetry prize for his 28-line poem, "Primavera". The judges were Jacques Barzun, instructor of history, and Howard Theodric Westbrook (1900–1944), instructor in Greek and Latin.
Eugene's father, Joseph Williams (1879–1934), died when he was 16. His mother, Anna Freid (maiden; 1885–1940), died when he was 21. He had only one sibling, a sister, Josephine Williams (1915–1983), who had been married to Joseph Akibba Turitz (1905–1956).
(Greenberg, Publisher, founded in 1924 by Jacob Walter Greenberg; 1894–1974; & David Benjamin Greenberg; 1892–1968; sold to Chilton Book Company in 1958)
Vol. 1: 9th of 10 articles – "New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams & Julius "Skippy" Adelman (1924–2004) (photographer). Note: Adelman later gave up photography. Philadelphia jazz critic Nels Nelson (né Nels Robert Nelson; 1923–1996) wrote in 1985 that Adelman was among the greatest jazz photographers in the world.[5][b] In 1990, Nelson wrote that renowned jazz photographer "[Bill] Gottlieb ranks second only to the elusive Skippy Adelman in his capacity for capturing the moment."[6][7][8]
Vol. 2: 9th of 16 articles – "New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams & Julius "Skippy" Adelman (photographer)
^Eugene Williams (1918–1948) – see a short biographical note on Gene Williams (1918-1948) in Bill Russell's American Music (BRAM), compiled and edited by Mike Hazeldine, Jazzology Press (1993), p. 170; ISBN0963889001; ISBN9780963889003; OCLC1050495610, 939852788
^Nels Nelson (né Nels Robert Nelson; 1923–1996) was a jazz columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News for over 40 years. He retired from the Daily News in 1995 and passed away the following year.
^Orlake Records was a label founded by Orlake, a subsidiary of plastics company Movilex Ltd. when they opened their first pressing plant in Dagenham, Essex in 1964.
(title of article not known; cited by reference in another article, "Information: Bunk Johnson," Bunk Johnson Information, The Swedish Bunk Johnson Society, No. 7, Spring 1996, p. 8; OCLC52864508
^"Jazzways" (review of a 1947 re-print of Jazzways, by George S. Rosenthal and Frank Zachary), reviewed by C. Sumner Spalding (né Charles Sumner Spalding, Sr.; 1912–1997), Notes (2nd series), Vol. 5, No. 1, December 1947, pps. 113–114 (accessible viaJSTORatwww.jstor.org/stable/890984)
