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Little Girl Blue Dreyfus FDM361862
-We Will Meet Again (4:37) with Chick Corea
total time 67:19
In each case a pas de deux. Most often found in the company of younger sister Marielle, here Katia skips through a series of ingeniously contrived standards and originals opposite some of the great exponents of modern jazz piano. She stresses that rather than ´play jazz´ she plays the music of jazz composers and everything here has a classical edge. Fragile lines lightly gild ´My Funny Valentine´ opposite Herbie Hancock; robust conversation with Joe Zawinul´s synth gives way to the Romantic confection of Bill Evans´s ´Turn Out the Stars´, beside Chick Corea. A vivacious performer, Katia is everything but blue.
The disc´s title is a Rodgers and Hart song, played here in Brian Priestley´s transcription of a Oscar Peterson recording. Bill Evans influence spreads through much of the disc, as several of the jazzers here owe a good deal to him; Katia and Corea do a neat job on Evans´s ´We Will Meet Again´. Katia´s previous jazz-inspired album, Love of Colours, recorded with her sister Marielle, opened with Michel Camilo´s long but powerful piece, ´Caribe´; here the sisters are again in Camilo´s exciting ´On Fire´ the only track on which Marielle plays. Camilo also partners Katia in his arrangement of ´La Comparsa´, in which he improvises some delicious ripples and splashes over her ostinato. Katia´s numbers with Gonzalo Rubalcaba may take some getting used to - on first hearing. ´Volcano For Hire´, by Joe Zawinul, is the only track played on synthesizers. It lives up to its title.
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