Main Trio: Keith Ganz on guitar and Danton Boller on Bass
Also often play with: Tom Beckham, John Mettam and Tim Luntzel in Cocktail Angst; Todd Londagin in his 17 piece Big Band.
Other collaborators:
Neal Miner, Matt Ray, Jeff Brillinger, Pete Smith, Andrew Hall, Jon Dryden, Nick Demopoulis, J. Walter Hawkes, Doug Largent, Vito Lesczak, Mark McCarren, Tim Otto, Joey Seifers,
Musicians Toby has Played With Over the Years:
Chris Cheek, Bill Charlap, Matt Munisteri, Dave Ambrosio, Jim Whitney, Rob Garcia, Stephen Schatz, John Eric Kelso, Mike Hashim, Keith Hall, Mike Kanan, Nick Mancini, Donnie McCaslin, Russ Meissner, Bennett Pastor, Adam Rafferty, Reid Anderson, Gary Wang, Nicholas Walker and many others!
Influences
Anita O'Day, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn, Etta Jones, Milt Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Yma Sumac, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy King, Kate McGarry.
Sounds Like
I've been told I sound like: Keely Smith, myself, Nancy King, Jo Stafford and some other random jazz singers over the years. I think I sound like me but I hear my influences in my singing.
Toby Williams is a jazz singer, board certified music therapist, voice teacher and early education music instructor. Toby has a master’s degree in music therapy from NYU and is a licensed creative arts therapist. Toby works with developmentally delayed and autistic children as well as adults seeking to expand their own healing capacity through music. Toby teaches natural voice breathing and singing techniques to adults and gives workshops on how to use the voice and body to promote emotional and physical healing.
Toby has been singing jazz professionally since her high school years and has recorded two CDs with her cocktail/Latin/ Exotica band, Cocktail Angst (http://www.cocktailangst.com). She also sings jazz with her trio (http://www.myspace.com/tobywilliamsgroup) and Todd Londagin’s Big Band (www.toddlondagin.com). Toby studied voice with esteemed jazz vocalist and teacher Deb Silver and went on to train with Deb to teach the Natural Voice Method of singing. She wrote her master’s thesis on Humor and the Voice describing her work using voice and movement with adult psychiatric consumers. Toby gives workshops on jazz singing through Carnegie Hall's Education Outreach program.
Currently, Toby uses voice, breathe and movement in her work with adults and with developmentally delayed and autistic children. Toby conducts vocal workshops for adults recovering from cancer, cardiac-thoracic surgery and for those seeking to expand the body’s own healing capacities through breathing and singing. With a grant from Carnegie Hall, Toby partnered with Friend’s Health Connection (www.friendsheathconnection.org) in 2005 to pioneer a bedside music therapy program on the oncology unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York and to conduct breathing and song-healing workshops through Columbia’s Integrative Medicine Program. Carnegie Hall has renewed their grant to support Toby’s group work for the Integrative Medicine Department at Columbia Presbyterian with additional funding from the hospital. Friend’s Heath Connection has asked Toby to continue her work on the oncology unit at Columbia Presbyterian with a ten week program for 2007. Toby has also founded the music therapy program at Reach for the Stars Learning Center, a school for children on the autistic spectrum in Brooklyn, New York. Toby continues to work with children and adults privately, to perform with her jazz group, Cocktail Angst and the Todd Londagin Big Band and to conduct vocal jazz presentations for Carnegie Hall’s Education Outreach Program.
Toby lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two cats.
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Jon to Toby: Greetings from Times Sq. Toby, good to see you on the Space and that you're doing good works with your music as medicine, right on! I am a specialist for playing in secure psychiatric wards and prisons, also assisted living. I've seen many folks come to from the music and get out of wheelchairs and dance, it's a very powerful thing. Keep up the good work Toby! all the best, Jon *Member AFM Local 802, Local 6 / ASCAP Publisher
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You know with all the karaoke bars I've been with in San Francisco. I still can't sing. But I can at least take a mean photograph. You have a beautiful voice Toby.
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