That interest in jazz turned into a passion while stationed in Europe in a US Army band, and from exposure to the surrounding music scene of the times. 'I was ready for Europe at that time [1975] because their brand of jazz comes from the symphony rather than blues or bebop so it seemed like I had found my home'.
Indeed Larry had come full circle with his interests. Now he was back listening to the symphony while maintaining a foothold in jazz as well as other forms of popular music.

Today Larry resides in Los Angeles California and has well earned the respect of the established jazzmen. He is in constant demand for his many skills including guitar [see Larry's guitar page on Myspace] and performs regularly with the San Fernando Valley Symphony and the Orchestre Surreal. (on trumpet)

 

"I only want to be remembered as a nice guy." Count Basie

It all started when his father, James Williams (also a trumpeter) put a horn in little 8 year old Larry's hands and gave him his first lessons.

'I started out with Willie Thomas (Jazz, Anyone?) then later moved on to the Florida Symphony players, David G. Sapp & Charles Gottschalk." "These guys were instrumental in extending abilities and interests far beyond my scope or expectations as a young trumpet player, then later it was Ira Sullivan who became my jazz "finishing school".
"The Bridge"  is Larry Williams' latest effort and is a "case in point" to different treatments of a standard jazz quartet format.
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"I didn't even want to play the trumpet," Larry recalls, "As I was heading for the drums at a band camp just before 7th grade, I felt my dad's hand grab the back of my shirt collar and reposition my footsteps toward the brass section, so it was my Destiny?"

After entering the 7th grade Larry immediately took the 1st chair in the high school band at Oviedo, "challenging" his way up through the ranks.
Everyone soon realized there was something about this child that was beyond their experience so his mother promptly set him up with a private instructor.

 

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'I was training to be a symphonic player early on, but after holding down the principal chair in the Florida Youth Symphony for several years I realized the traditional role of trumpet in the orchestra left me craving more involvement in whatever piece we would be performing'. (lots of bar-counting for us trumpeters before entering with our short fanfares)
Throughout his tenure, instead of concentrating on his own parts, Larry found himself constantly tuning in to the other orchestral voices while formulating his own opuses in his mind.
Thus, the interest in composition had already begun to develop.

It wasn't until college that Dr. Bill Hinkle (SCC) managed to interest Larry in Jazz and some of the great players of that idiom. After being exposed to Doc Severinsen, Freddie Hubbard, and Maynard Ferguson Larry abandoned the symphony and turned his focus exclusively to Jazz.