Track Listing

1. Space Available
2. Road Goes Ever Onward
3. It'll Count If It Goes
4. My Foolish Heart
5. Mama Lama Samba
6. My Romance
7. I Got d'Zzz'z
8. Village Dance

Product Details

• Released on: 1997-08-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

awesome trombonist
I've had this one in my collection for a few years now. This is probably his best band in terms of quality of arrangers and soloists. Bill's solos, as always, are heart-felt on ballads ("My Foolish Heart" is absolutely gorgeous! Check out the intensity of the high E at the end!). His technique, range, and choice of notes on the uptempo stuff are outstanding.

His tone, at times,however, seems unusually dark and muffled. When I first heard the CD, I wondered whether that was really him. It could have been the room or the recording techniques.

This CD is a must for all trombonists and big band fans!

Great big band, Watrous also great but over-miked
Bill Watrous has always been one of my favorites, so I was greatly anticipating this long-overdue big band release, roughly 25 years since his classic albumns on Columbia. The charts and quality of the band here don't disappoint, but unfortunately, Bill's buttery sound is simply too muffled. It sounds too much like a baritone and too little like a trombone. It just doesn't compare to the Columbia releases from that perspective. It's too bad because the awesome technique is still there, if a bit too much--his solo throughout the final cut is almost exclusively 16th notes. The cadenza, however, is a real highlight. Overall, fun, but a bit disappointing for one very familiar with his Columbia and Famous Door releases in the 70's.

Awesome
This is one of the greatest trombone alubms around. Bill Watrous takes jazz to a whole new range with this CD.