Tonight! - Roger Williams At Town Hall

 Un Sosprino - Jalousie - Dark Eyes

Tonight!

Roger Williams At Town Hall
The Complete Concert
With The Quiet Men and Introducing Sebastian
KAPP KXL-5008
1960

The Quiet Men
Roger Nichols - Bass
Gilbert Hintz - Guitar
Sam Cavarretta - Guitar

From the inside cover: In 1955, a recording of the song "Autumn Leaves" skyrocketed a young pianist named Roger Williams into nationwide attention. The American public quickly realized that a great new talent had been discovered , for here indeed was a pianist with something unique to offer – magnificent technique, sincere musicianship and inspired artistry, bursting with new ideas. Since that date Roger Williams has grown in stature and reputations, and every new album – in addition to being a best seller – has added a host of brilliant melodies and unforgettable interpretations to the musical scene. Each album, rather than being a repetition of a previous success, has added a new chapter to the Roger Williams story – a contributing factor to his becoming the largest selling popular pianist in the history of the recording industry. And this, it should be remembered, has been achieved in the amazingly short period of five years.

Honored on television in "This Is Your Life" and "Person To Person", the Ed Sullivan and Perry Como Shows, (the full list of his guest appearances is too long to enumerate), the story of "Mr. Piano" is well known: how, by the age of twelve, he had mastered as many musical instruments as he had years; how, after receiving his BA And MA in Music, he worked as a lumberjack to pay his tuition for future studies; how, at New York's famed Julliard School of Music, he completed his classical background, studying also under jazz 'greats' Teddy Wilson and Lennie Tristano. The rest of the story is told most eloquently by his recordings, which display the many facets of his versatile career, ranging from classics to jazz and indentified by a polished and masterly approach to all music.

From Billboard - August 8, 1960: Here it is, the thing the Williams fans have waited for – a complete Town Hall concert, captured live at the famous New York house. In the dual-LP package, handsomely illustrated and prepared in the book-fold style, Williams offers just about everything in his repretoire, which covers pop, classical and even jazz. In jazz he's nicely accompanied by the Quiet Men, a rhythm group. Sebastian, the toy piano is also here. A solid hunk of packaging.

Un Sospiro (Liszt)
Jalousie (Jacob Gade)
Dark Eyes (Traditional)
Mexicali Rose (Jack Tenny)
Tales From The Vienna Woods (Strauss)
I Love You Truly (Carrie Jacobs-Bond)
Sweethearts (Victor Herbert)
Beautiful Ohio (Mary Earl)
Liza (George Gershwin)

Prelude #1 In C Minor (J.S. Bach)
(From "The Well-Tempered Clavier")
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Traditional)
Memories Are Made Of This (Gilkyson-Deher-Miller)
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo ( Deutsch-Kaper)
Fascination (F.D. Marchetti)
Catch A Falling Star (Pockriss-Vance)
Anything You Can Do (Irving Berlin)
Prelude In C Sharp Minor (Rachmaninoff)
Sabre Dance (Khachaturian)
Nola (Felix Arndt)
Stout Hearted Men (Romberg-Hammerstein)
The Girl I Left Behind Me (Traditional)
Volare (Modugno - Miguacci)
Autumn Leaves (Kosma-Prevert-Mercer)
Brahm's Lullaby (Johannes Brahms)

Maid With The Flaxen Hair (Debussy)
Vaya Con Dios (Russell-James-Pepper)
I Got Rhythm (George Gershwin)
Till (Sigman Danvers)
Near You (Craig Goell)
Almost Paradise (Norman Petty)
Rock 'N Roger (Rodger Williams)

The Warsaw Concerto (Richard Addinsell)
Turkish March (Mozart)
Taking A Chance On Love (Vernon Duke)
Ghost Riders In The Sky (Stan Jones)
Hungarian Rhapsody In C Sharp Minor (Liszt)
Cumana (Barclay Allen)
Ritual Fire Dance (De Falla)
Somebody Love Me (George Gershwin)
Flight Of The Bumble-Bee (Rimsky Korsakoff)
I Know That You Know (Sinding)
Let's Fall In Love (Harold Arlen)
Spring Song (Mendelssohn)
Hungarian Rhapsody In C Sharp Minor (Liszt)