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James Williams matches Rickey Woodard's intensity with four choruses of piano on "Sand Dance" at approximately 222 BPM, his hard-bop sophistication providing a perfect complement to Woodard's more blues-rooted approach over the 32-bar ABAC form in B-flat. His four-chorus solo creates an improvisation of comparable scope and power to the preceding tenor feature, the live Tokyo setting capturing the responsive interplay between soloist and rhythm section. As the second of three soloists, Williams's extended statement sustains the performance's propulsive energy before Christian McBride's concluding bass feature.
James Williams was 40 to 41 years old at the time.
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