Released August 19, 1997 Artist Charles Williams | Length 59:08 Release date 19 August 1997 | |
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Recorded May 9, 1995 & March 12, 1996 Similar This One's for Ja, Song Out of My Trees, Minor Swing, Musician - Composer - Raconteur, Makin' a Move | ||
When Alto Was King is the final album recorded by American saxophonist C. I. Williams released in 1997 on the Mapleshade label a quarter century after his previous album.
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Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "this superb-sounding album is a fitting showcase for Williams' alto talents". In JazzTimes Willard Jenkins wrote "Mr. Williams has a buttery tone that is delivered with authority and the veteran's sense of relaxed swing. His tone bending, for example, is done very subtly and with a knowingness that never announces the arrival of the next bended note. He plays it with a liquidity and fluid sense of phrasing that makes every piece a study in elegance".
Track listing
All compositions by C. I. Williams except as indicated
- "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) - 5:12
- "Punkin Juice" - 5:45
- "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 8:08
- "Catfish Sammich" - 4:57
- "Misty" (Erroll Garner) - 5:57
- "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 6:32
- "Because of You" (Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson) - 3:29
- "Jeep's Blues" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) - 6:55
- "I'll Close My Eyes" (Buddy Kaye, Billy Reid) - 5:03
- "Avalon" (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Vincent Rose) - 2:37
- "Precious Lord" (Thomas A. Dorsey) - 2:07
Personnel
References
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