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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
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awarded the album 4 stars stating "this superb-sounding album is a fitting showcase for Williams' alto talents". In
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sense of phrasing that makes every piece a study in elegance".
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All compositions by C. I. Williams except as indicated
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is the final album recorded by American saxophonist
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Studio album
C. I. Williams
Genre
Jazz
Label
Mapleshade
Producer
Hamiet Bluiett
C. I. Williams
Stickball
C. I. Williams
Mapleshade
AllMusic
AllMusic
JazzTimes
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
Cole Porter
'Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk
Misty
Erroll Garner
Lover Man
Ram Ramirez
Because of You
Arthur Hammerstein
Duke Ellington
Johnny Hodges
I'll Close My Eyes
Buddy Kaye

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