Anat Fort and Gianluigi Trovesi: Birdwatching review – elegant and exquisite jazz

(ECM) Anat Fort is an Israeli jazz pianist with a Jarrett-inspired touch and phrasing, and a composer with a knack for deceptively simple-sounding tunes that are usually elegant and frequently exquisite. Her trio made the beguiling And If for ECM in 2010, but 2004’s A Long Story, with clarinetist Perry Robinson, was the story that particularly bore revisiting – so Birdwatching augments her group with another superb clarinetist here, in Italian maestro Gianluigi Trovesi. The title steers the ...

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