Welcome to ‘Dodd’s Discoveries’, a review series from NativeDSD Senior Music Reviewer Bill Dodd. This series focuses on Bill’s latest selections, with new reviews regularly. And the best part… the albums featured in the most current review will be available at a reduced price! Click the button below to see all of Dodd’s Discoveries and to find the current album(s) on sale.
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ElegyHK$185.49 – HK$308.99
The amazing classical cellist Maya Fridman joins with jazz musicians, pianist Atzko Kohashi an acoustic bass player Frans van der Hoeven, to create something unique!
It’s wonderful, it’s superbly played; but what is it? Yes, it’s jazz, but Maya Fridman’s cello makes for something like classical chamber music. Or, chamber jazz. (I didn’t coin that phrase, by
the way, but it works.) The three musicians play together as one, even as they occasionally improvise.
The recording is amazing. For me, this is music for being alone – perhaps with a dash of melancholy.
It’s music that suggests a dream – one you don’t want to lose when you wake up.
Quiet, thoughtful, calming- but this music is never “background.”
But what do you call it? I call it uniquely involving, beautifully played, soul- touching music!
I hope you will take the time to “discover” this one for yourself.
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ElegyHK$185.49 – HK$308.99
