Label: ECM Records
Country: Germany
Released: 17 Jan 2014
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
ECM Review
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.”
Credits
Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Klaus Gesing
Design – Sascha Kleis
Engineer – Stefano Amerio
Photography By [Photos] – Jan Kricke
Piano – Glauco Venier
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Voice – Norma Winstone
Tracklist
Dance Without Answer
Cucurrucucu Paloma
High Places
Gust Da Essi Viva
A Tor A Tor
Live To Tell
It Might Be You
Time Of No Reply
San Diego Serenade
A Breath Away
Bein' Green
Slow Fox
Everybody's Talkin'
