OA2 Records Artist Steve Williams

Williams has appeared on several albums including the Grammy winning "Caribbean Jazz Project/ Afro-Bop Alliance Big Band featuring Dave Samuels." He played lead alto sax with The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra and was a semi-finalist in the 1988 Hennessey Cognac Jazz Search. He has performed with Joe Williams, Linda Carter, The Temptations, Rita Moreno, Jim Neighbors, Linda Lavin, Hal Linden, Eddie Fisher, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, The Ice Capades, The Mills Brothers, Floyd Cramer, Al Hirt, Boots Randolph, Wayne Newton, Maureen McGovern, and many others. Williams has also performed with The Fort Worth, Richmond, and Baltimore Symphonies as well.

Williams attended North Texas State University where he played lead alto saxophone in the famed One O' Clock Lab Band. While there he studied saxophone with Jim Riggs. He briefly attended Florida State University where he studied saxophone with Patrick Mieghan and improvisation with Bill Kennedy, and he later led an ensemble that won the 1988 National Collegiate Jazz Competition.