Joe Williams - Here's to Life

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1994
File: MP3@256K/s
Time: 59:31
Size: 110,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:37)  1. Here's To Life
(4:52)  2. What A Wonderful World
(4:17)  3. When I Fall In Love
(4:14)  4. I Found A Million Dollar Baby
(4:54)  5. If I Had You
(4:07)  6. Maybe September
(4:00)  7. Save That Time
(4:49)  8. Young And Foolish
(5:15)  9. I Didn't Know About You
(4:32) 10. Little Sir Echo
(4:58) 11. Someone You've Loved
(4:06) 12. A Time For Love
(3:44) 13. Here's To Life

Joe Williams loves the string arrangements of Robert Farnon and the sappy ballad "Here's to Life" but in truth the charts border on muzak and the slow tempoes on this Telarc CD have little variety. Reminiscent a bit of Nat King Cole's string sessions of the 1950s with Gordon Jenkins, there is little jazz content to this set. Williams is in particularly strong form, interpreting the ballads in dramatic and sensitive fashion, but, despite his charm, this is one of his lesser recordings. ~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/heres-to-life-mw0000623648

Personnel: Joe Williams (vocals); Louis Stewart (guitar); Hugh Webb (harp); Liz Edwards, Belinda Bunt, Trevor Williams , Michael Berrow, Madeleine Whitelaw, Rachel Cohen, John Ronayne, Raymond Keenlyside, Diana Cummings, Raymond Cohen, Jonathan Strange, Celia Sheen, Homi Kanga, Gillian Cohen, Roy Wilson, Roger Garland (violin); John Underwood , Kenneth Essex, Michael Ponder (viola); Keith Harvey, Denis Vigay, Anthony Pleeth (cello); Dennis Walton, Peter Hughes , Tommy Whittle, Roy Willox (woodwinds); Paul Pritchard, John Rooke, John Pigneguy (French horn); Bill Geldard, Christopher Dean, Don Lusher (trombone); Laurie Holloway (piano, celesta); George Shearing (piano); Jack Parnell (drums).

Here's to Life

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