- April's father, Maurie Harris, was a trumpet player in Big Bands from back east, then in early TV & Film of the 1950s. It was 1992 when he retired from 25 years of the Johnny Carson show in the Doc Severinsen Band. She always been a performer/singer beginning in musicals with the LA Civic Light opera shows in the 1970s and Broadway. Her husband a session player, percussionist Don Williams who and her father actually worked together for twenty years in the music business. Dons brothers John and Jerry Williams are professional studio musicians as well as their father, who was a drummer percussionist. Vitellos restaurant has been in Studio City since 1964, April pursued and produced nine months of weekly jazz nights, and many hours and dollars dedicated to spreading the good word about the club, the owners embraced the jazz community and officially began presenting jazz nightly.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- April Williams, creator and producer of the LA Red Carpet Jazz Series, creating musical communities that join the working Pro's with the up coming talent. Studio City's Vitello's started offering jazz as April Williams unleashed her Red Carpet Jazz series. The stellar talent and its elegant upstairs space earned a good reputation among musicians and fans.
- Making a Federal case for jazz, impresario April Williams hopes to turn the upstairs room at the Federal in the NoHo Arts District into a hot spot for big band music, funk, fusion and jazz. She began booking and producing music in the upstairs room at Vitello's restaurant in Studio City at the end of 2009. It's now one of the most coveted jazz spots for musicians and listeners alike. In 2012 she breaks new ground with a spring music series at the Federal, in the heart of the NoHo Arts District near a Metro Rail station.
She could hardly inaugurate her new enterprise more auspiciously: Williams has tapped Bob Sheppard, one of the preeminent West Coast jazz saxophonist stylists and busiest recording session players in the Hollywood studios. He leads his quartet that night with pianist John Beasley, bassist Tim Lefebvre and drummer Steve Hass.
Williams sees no conflict in bringing music to the two venues. "They're quite different," she points out. "Vitello's is a quiet dining space where people who really listen can hear jazz - and sometimes classical music - in a quiet atmosphere.
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