Walk Tall (album)

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Walk Tall
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ReleasedSeptember 22, 1998 (1998-09-22)
Recorded1998
Genre Jazz
Length55:57
Label Verve
Producer Harvey Mason
Eric Marienthal chronology
Easy Street
(1997)
Walk Tall
(1998)
Turn Up the Heat
(2001)

Walk Tall is an album by American saxophonist Eric Marienthal released in 1998, and recorded for the Verve label. It is Marienthal's tribute to the music of Cannonball Adderley. The album reached No. 13 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Joe Zawinul) – 5:24
  2. Work Song (Nat Adderley/Oscar Brown) – 4:24
  3. Walk Tall (Zawinul/Jim Rein/Queen Esther Marrow) – 4:40
  4. Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer) – 3:31
  5. Imagine That (Eric Marienthal/Rob Mullins) – 4:34
  6. The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields) – 5:30
  7. Here in My Heart (Mullins) – 4:37
  8. Sunstone (Russell Ferrante) – 4:23
  9. If You Need Me To (Harvey Mason) – 3:31
  10. Country Preacher (Zawinul) – 5:29
  11. Unit 7 (Sam Jones) – 5:01
  12. Groove Runner (Jeff Lorber/Marienthal) – 4:13

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1991)Peak
position
Billboard Jazz Albums [1] 13

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References

  1. "Eric Marienthal US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-09.