THANK YOU (Universal) 6/10 Few figures tower over popular music like Diana Ross, who can go for 15 years without releasing an album – longer without one containing original material – and yet still seem enshrined in our collective consciousness. Now she finally returns to recording with Thank You, the…
Category: Album Reviews – Archive
ECHOS (Sunnyside) 9/10 The mystery continues. It’s a thread of music in which each note is laden with subtext, so every listening reveals something new: a quality inherent in the work of the likes of Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Now US pianist Dahveed Behroozi espouses comparable mysteries…
LOVE FOR SALE (Universal) 7/10 Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga would make good poker players. By waiting seven years to record their second album together, they also waited until Bennett was 94 (he’s since turned 95). Think about that for a moment. The credulity-defying achievement of still having a voice…