April Williams

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.