BENNY WATERS
Plays Songs of Love
Benny Waters alto-saxophone
Charles "Red" Richards piano
Johnny Williams jr. bass
Jackie Williams drums
Vic Juris guitar
What is this thing called love
You are the sunshine of my live
I`m in the mood for love
The love nest
When your lover has gone
Almost like being in love
Always
I love you
Love me or leave me
Taking a chance on love
Total time: 50.03
After his SWINGING AGAIN jp 1037 recorded in May 1993 Benny Waters returned to the studio with his New York back-up band to record SONGS OF LOVE.
On this CD Benny`s interpretations of familiar and of more rarely played
titles are of a magical beauty. This is a Waters that cleverly catches
the mood without betraying himself. Restricted to the alto sax by his
blindness, he dedicates his virtuosity on this CD to lovers. What we
find here is pure, unadulterated Waters. His back-up musicians, with an
average age of 85, have been names since the early days of Jazz. What
they offer here is not only Jazz for the mellow hours but it is like a
fine wine, not only becoming more valuable with the years but also
better.
The world-class pianist Charles "Red" Richards has worked together with
Roy Eldridge. Bobby Hackett, Jimmy Mc Partland, Sidney Bechet, Bob
Wilbur, Muggsy Spanier, Wild Bill Davison, has often played Europe,
first with the Mezzrow/Buck Clayton Groups, with Saints and Sinners, and
the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band. Richards is heard frequently as a solo
pianist. Johnny Williams on bass studied violin, bass and tuba for
several years at various music schools in and around Memphis. In the
early thirties he was already a full-time professional with Billy Kyle
in the Memphis Club in Philadelphia. He appeared in Baltimore with Tiny
Bradshaw and in 1936 was called to N.Y.C. to play in Lucky Millinder`s
Big Band. He has played with Claude Hopkins, Benny Carter, Frank Newton,
Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Edmond Hall, Tab Smith
and Johnny Hodges and has toured Europe several times with Buddy Tate
and the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band. Drummer Jackie Williams is a real
New Yorker, reserved and sensitive, he has played in the orchestras of
Earl 'Fatha' Hines, Jay McShann, Bobby Hackett and Doc Cheatham.
The guitarist Vic Juris completes the Waters group on the tracks 'I'm in
the Mood for Love', 'What is this Thing Called Love' and 'Almost Like
Being in Love'.
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