Patrick Moody Williams (April 23, 1939 – July 25, 2018) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.

For five years he served as the artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute – one of the nation's premier training programs for young musicians seeking professional careers in music.

Williams scored more than 200 films, including Breaking Away, for which he received a 1980 Oscar nomination; All of Me; Swing Shift; Cuba; and The Grass Harp.

For clarinetist Eddie Daniels, Williams wrote A Concerto in Swing; for saxophonist Tom Scott, he penned Romances for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra.

An American Concerto, composed in 1976, was one of the first successful attempts to combine jazz elements with traditional symphonic writing.

Williams was contracted frequently by the major labels; however, he always managed to find time to share his talents with up-and-comers he believed in.

Al Schmitt engineered these sessions and set up a Neumann U47 microphone previously owned by Sinatra himself to add to the nostalgia.

[5] Respected music critic Gene Lees was quoted as saying: "His An American Concerto is, in my opinion, the best mixture of jazz and classical that anybody has ever done.

Daniel Cariaga wrote in the Los Angeles Times: " An American Concerto must be one of the most attractive, affecting and original of jazz-symphonic meldings.