ECM

The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone once again casts her net wide for source material for this third ECM album with Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German clarinetist / saxophonist Klaus Gesing. Alongside new pieces by Winstone/Gesing and by Venier, the trio covers tunes by singer-songwriters Nick Drake, Fred Neil and Tom Waits. They take a fresh approach to Madonna's "Live To Tell", and to Dave Grusin's "It Might Be You", as well as Ralph Towner's "A Breath Away" (now with lyrics by Norma) and "Bein' Green", a children's song elevated to jazz standard status by Sinatra, Stan Kenton, Ray Charles and many more. "As Winstone moves ever farther from the Great American Songbook," All About Jazz observed, "it's certain that, with band mates as sympathetic as Gesing and Venier, there's precious little she can't do."

Vitous Miroslav / Jan Garbarek: Atmos 1993 [Digipack / CD]

Tibbetts Steve: Northern song 1982 [Digipack / CD]

Efterlängtat möte mellan två jazzgiganter! Ett duoalbum med trumpetaren<b> Enrico Rava </b>och pianisten<b> Fred Hersch</b>, inspelat under en glödande studiosession i Lugano i november 2021<br/><br/> "The album they have created plays brilliantly to the strengths of both musicians. The opening 'Retrato Em Banca E Preto' takes the Jobim composition and probes at it sensitively and co-operatively, so that Rava's stabbing phrases are countered by Hersch's sense of texture." (Alyn Shipton)

Rava Enrico: Edizione speciale 2021 [CD]

Maestro Shai/Roeder/Nehemya: Dream thief 2018 [CD]

Winstone Norma: Descansado/Songs for films 2018 [CD]