He left his girlfriend–“a party girl”–and their daughter in Minneapolis and returned to Chicago for good, he thought, in 1995. That didn’t work out instead Williams got involved with a girl, and eventually they had a child. Unhappy in Chicago, he and several friends trekked to Minneapolis to start a pop band. In 1991 Williams dropped out of Lewis University because of money problems. “He’s the one that told me there’s a possibility of a career in jazz.” His mother put him on a waiting list for Suzuki lessons in Mount Prospect–an hour and a half from their Bronzeville home–when he was merely a kick in her belly, thinking music would teach him discipline.Ĭlassically trained as a child, after high school Williams met jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson while on a summer scholarship at Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts. Williams, who performs under the stage name Savoir Faire, has been playing violin since he was three. Even when I don’t have enough money to eat and I’m living off $20 a week. ![]() “I can’t stop,” says jazz violinist Samuel Williams.
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