Stacey Kent, A Time For Love, Naïve Records ***1/2
Quiet and reflective from one of the greatest classic jazz singers of our times. The Jim Tomlinson co-write with Cliff Goldmacher 'What Goodbye Is For' appeals most to me.
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Preview: Blair/Huber to surface at SJQ on the evening of Easter Monday down in Dalston
Not even a case following frequent replay of once smitten twice shy.
John Beasley with the SWR Big Band, Invisible Piano, O-tone music ****
Currently performing through until Saturday - as a member of Unlimited Miles at the Birdland jazz club in New York along with Sean Jones, Marcus Strickland, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Williams and Terreon Gully - John Beasley on Invisible Piano is here in a big band album incarnation to be released in May which features originals as well as James Taylor and Earth, Wind & Fire material on an album that takes its name from the visual cue of a 1920s Max Ernst proto-surrealist painting.
Shalosh, What We Are Made Of, ACT ***
Covering Oasis, Muse and Aqua is not only a bit but a lot gimmicky. Otherwise beyond the purist baiting the trio continue doing what they have been accomplishing for a while. That is delivering accessible contemporary piano trio sounds as "invented" back in the late 1990s by the likes of e.s.t, The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau.
The Bad Plus, Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Barbican, City of London ****
Playing the music of the Keith Jarrett American Quartet on their farewell tour, The Bad Plus were on uncompromising kickass form.
Alexander Claffy, Alive in Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (At Chris’ Jazz Cafe), Cellar Music ****
Leaps out of the speakers: what a very happening live album from a stellar US band playing a Coltrane tune you rarely hear on a record these days among other gems. Includes formidable sax playing from Seamus Blake and Jaleel Shaw.
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