Resonator (Kathryn Williams album)

Resonator
Studio album by Kathryn Williams & Anthony Kerr
Released	11 November 2016
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:52
Label	One Little Indian
Kathryn Williams chronology
Hypoxia (2015) Resonator (2016) Songs From The Novel 'Greatest Hits' (2017)

Resonator is Kathryn Williams eleventh studio album and a collaboration with jazz musician and vibraphone player, Anthony Kerr. The album is a set of jazz standards that the pair worked on over a six-year period ^[1]

The album has received mixed reviews with Musikexpress claimed the album 'liberates oft-heard standards from the corset of arbitrariness' ^[2] with Intro adding 'Only an muted jazz trumpet and a distant double bass enrich the charged silence which often ends in unexpected slowness'. ^[3] Williams asserted on The Afterword podcast that 'I don't mind the different reactions that the album has got because it makes me feel like I'm doing something right.' ^[4]

Track listing

1. You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye / Gene de Paul)
2. My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
3. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
4. I'm A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra / Joel Herron \ Jack Wolf)
5. Like Someone In Love (Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Burke)
6. The Very Thought Of You (Ray Noble)
7. The Man I Love (George & Ira Gershwin)
8. Embraceable You (George & Ira Gershwin)
9. Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler)
10. Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma / Jacques Prevert)

Personnel

• Kathryn Williams – vocals
• Anthony Kerr – vibraphone
• Jon Thorne – double bass
• Martin Shaw – trumpet & flugel
• Simon Edwards – string synth & sonics
• All songs arranged by Kathryn Williams & Anthony Kerr
• Recorded and engineered by Simon Edwards
• Mixed by Dave Izumi at Echo Zoo Studios
• Mastered by Mandy Powell at Black Saloon Studios

References

1. "Kathryn Williams shares track from new album Resonator | FRUK". Folk Radio UK. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
2. "Review: Kathryn Williams & Anthony Kerr – Resonator". Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 14 February 2017.
3. "IKathryn Williams Resonator Review". Intro.de. 28 November 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
4. "The Afterword #52: Catching Up With Kathryn Williams". theafterword.co.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2017.