SOME OTHER TIME (Resonance/Birdland) 9/10 Imagine finding a bottle of 1968 Grange under your house. This album is a greater coup. A ’68 Montreux Jazz Festival recording of pianist Bill Evans’ trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and new drummer Jack DeJohnette was always thought to be their only album together.…
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SAMSARA (www.urbangypsies.org/) 7/10 What other band would even contemplate performing both Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir and Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango on the same album? Such juxtapositions could easily seem somewhat arch, but the Urban Gypsies Quartet makes it seem almost inevitable, so seamlessly does it blend genres, anyway. Elements of flamenco, jazz,…
WITH LOVE AND FURY (Kin/Universal) 9/10 Whereas poetry is conceived of as complete in itself, lyrics and librettos conceptually leave the composer creative space. So for Katie Noonan to use 10 of Judith Wright’s almost mystical poems for a song cycle was risky: delicate lilies could easily have been gilded…