Shock! sees Wales' top jazz pianist deliver a selection of funky originals. From melancholy ballads to biting funk, the Power Trio bring a powerful focus and lyrical power to all that they play.

Gareth Williams is an artist who commands huge respect and warmth throughout the UK jazz community.  Shock!, the debut album with the Gareth Williams Power Trio, showcases Williams' skills as an outstanding composer, pianist and improviser.

London-based jazz pianist Gareth Williams has written all but one of the album's tracks (the exception being a cracking new version of John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps') and his playing exudes power, sensitivity and a poignant lyricism.

Drawing on a range of influences Williams' compositions range from the elegant 'Evans the Piano', to the elegiac 'For Hedd Wyn, Alun Lewis and the Others', the intense modern jazz of 'Seven Leaves', the lop-sided modernity of 'Some In' and the crisp funk of 'Keeping Up With Our Jones's', making this Williams' most complete statement to date

Contents:
1. A Welshman in New York
2. Shock!
3. Giant Steps
4. Zelda
5. Seven Leaves
6. Keeping Up With Our Jones’s
7. Rocky Crater
8. Holey Moley
9. For Alun Lewis, Hedd Wyn And the Others
10. Twenty Years Later
11. Some In
12. Evans the Piano
13. Zed Blues