This collection of songs represents the work of many of the American singer songwriters coming up these days. While the impressionist tag implies more lyrical adventure than one actually hears, it is a good ambitious category to begin filling. Some of the best cuts are "The Deerhunter" by Doyle Carver and "Jack's Belted Galoways" by Diane Zeigler. ~ Richard Meyer, All Music Guide

CD $18.03

CD $18.03

Konitz has recorded with strings before but never like this: all alone in front of a string quartet sans rhythm section in a collection of arrangements of pieces by the French classical composers Koechlin, Chausson, Ravel, Faure, Debussy, and Satie. Unquestionably the sound and techniques of this fusion lean heavily toward the classical end, yet that mere bit of categorizing just scratches the surface of these elegant, serious, often provocative recordings. Arranger/musical director {$...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38