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Arrival Artist: Jessica Williams
Label: Jazz Focus
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 078686800016
EAN: 0078686800016
ASIN: B000002X5B


Release Date: 1996-03-10

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Tracks:

  1. Birks Works
  2. I've Never Been In Love Before
  3. Japanese Folk Song
  4. Misterioso
  5. Lulu's Back In Town
  6. Ruby My Dear
  7. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  8. Blues For Strayhorn
  9. For You Again
  10. The Creator Has A Master Plan
  11. The Child Within
  12. Mood Indigo

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One of Williams' finest recordings.......2000-08-20

Jessica Williams only recently began to get much exposure on recordings, with the dedicated documentation of the Canadian label Jazz Focus (& more recently Candid). She has always been highly effective as a solo pianist (something well-documented on her Maybeck Recital Hall volume); though she got her start in a classical milieu, & was first turned on to jazz by Dave Brubeck, her most obvious influence is Thelonious Monk. Here tribute is paid in the form of two Monk tunes ("Ruby My Dear" & "Misterioso") & two Monk-associated tunes ("Japanese Folk Song" & "Lulu's Back in Town"). There's also a spectacular version of "Birks' Works", which begins with a little inside-the-piano special-effects & then moves to an extended boogie solo. That's probably the highlight of the disc; the last few tracks are perhaps not quite as good as the disc's first 8 tracks (Williams' two originals are good but not as characterful as the standards, oddly), but there's really nothing to complain about here--it's an impressive disc. Williams keeps her whimsical touches in check (in live performance she can sometimes drown tunes in quotations--here, the few quotations, such as Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", are apposite & effective), & her mastery of the keyboard is on full display. An album that should be heard by anyone interested in good mainstream piano.

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  6. A Deeper Well ~ Rebecca Kane
  7. Swinging Kicks ~ Buddy Bregman
  8. Something Special ~ Hampton Hawes
  9. Jazz, My Romance ~ Ron Carter
  10. Blues -- The Common Ground ~ Kenny Burrell

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