Will Boulware - A Night in Tunisia

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:59
Size: 119,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:32)  1. A Night in Tunisia
(6:08)  2. The Breeze and I
(6:45)  3. Yesterdays
(3:42)  4. Cleopatra's Dream
(4:07)  5. If I were a Bell
(5:22)  6. Easy
(6:35)  7. What'd I say
(5:59)  8. Pensive
(5:56)  9. The Fruit
(3:49) 10. Build UP

Will Boulware was born in Bardstown, Kentucky. His father played the guitar and sang cowboy songs and his mother still sings very well. The Boulware family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina then Atlanta, Georgia where Will started playing the piano at age five. At age 10, Will bought a set of drums and formed his first group “Wee Willy & The Winks” in which he played drums doing surf music until 13 when he traded in the drums for his first electric keyboard and started to listen to Jimmy Smith and his father’s Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck records. When he was fourteen, he was already in an R&B group performing. He also played the organ in a trio he formed and started performing his own compositions. By 1972, his songs were recorded by B.B. King. In 1973, he went to New York where he mainly worked doing recording sessions in commercial field. In the 80’s, Will lived in California doing some solo piano gigs and working with guitarists such as Scott Henderson, Phil Upchurch and Ron Eschete. By 1990, Will moved back to NYC where he started working with the late Phyllis Hyman and still doing some session work before starting in 1993, a 10-year organ stint with saxophonist Maceo Parker and touring with The Blues Brothers (1998), John Scofield (1999) and Carla Bley (2000). He also performed on Rodney Jones recordings and others. http://willboulware.com/bio/

Personnel:    Will Boulware, piano;  Harvey Mason, drums;  Lonnie Plaxico, acoustic bass;  Richard Bona, electric bass

A Night in Tunisia

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Will Boulware - Take Five

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:47
Size: 147,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:33)  1. Take Five
(3:18)  2. Very Early
(3:09)  3. You Are Too Beautiful
(5:41)  4. Be Ready
(6:38)  5. Body And Soul
(4:02)  6. Jingle
(3:53)  7. Wonder
(5:06)  8. How Deep Is The Ocean
(4:42)  9. Invitation
(7:39) 10. My Foolish Heart

The Boulware family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina then Atlanta, Georgia where Will started playing the piano at age five. Wills father played the guitar and sang cowboy songs along with his mother, Alberta Boulware Connelly, who still sings quite well. At age 10, Will bought a set of drums and formed his first group "Wee Willy & The Winks" in which he played drums doing surf music until 13 when he traded in the drums for his first electric keyboard and started to listen to Jimmy Smith and his father's Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck records. When he was fourteen, he was already in an R&B group performing. He also played the organ in a trio he formed called the Booger Band  and started performing his own compositions. By 1972, his songs were recorded by B.B. King. At 21 Will moved to New York City where he mainly worked doing recording sessions in commercial field. In the 1980s, Boulware lived in California doing some solo piano gigs and working with guitarists such as Scott Henderson, Phil Upchurch and Ron Eschete. By 1990, Boulware moved back to NYC where he started working with the late Phyllis Hyman. He also started in 1993 a 10-year organ stint with saxophonist Maceo Parker and touring with The Blues Brothers (1998), John Scofield (1999) and Carla Bley (2000). He also performed on Rodney Jones recordings and others. ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Personnel:  Will Boulware (Piano);  Lonnie Plaxico (Bass); Richard Bona (Bass Electric); Billy Kilson (Drums).

Take Five

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Will Boulware - Summertime

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:24
Size: 118,0 MB
Art: Front

(6:05)  1. Slow Down
(4:15)  2. Till
(7:30)  3. On Green Dolphin Stree
(5:13)  4. Thumbs
(5:32)  5. Moment's Notice
(3:59)  6. Big Band
(6:01)  7. E.S.P.
(5:48)  8. Who's Blues
(5:57)  9. Summertime

Rhythm team has been playing the bass in full story following the past two works by Richard Bonna, drums has been increasingly sharp instead of Billy Kilson from this time. I admire the wonder of the rhythmic team of this work from the original song "Slow Down" of the first thrilling theme. The combination of Bonna and Kilson is a speed sense, and in the sharpness it will be no doubt saying that it is the top class rhythm corps of the era. In this album in which the original and standard were interwoven in about half, the standard song was arranged to be easy to listen with pop sounds filled with Boureware's melodic, but in the original song it was a contemporary that was a little adventurous It is arranged. Eric Alexander of tenor who is participating in the three songs guests also listens to the performance of expressible expression that matched Boulewear's pop sense. It can be said that it is a work that seems to be a boule wear that can be enjoyed straight to the whole. People who want to listen to Bona's base are also satisfying. (Masato Hashi). https://translate.google.com.br/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://jazzfusion.com/cd2007/will_summertime.htm&prev=search

Personnel:  Will Boulware (piano), Richard Bona (bass), Billy Killson (drums), Eric Alexander (t.sax 3 songs participation)

Summertime

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