Christine Tobin/Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled | Jazz review

(Trail Belle)Christine Tobin and Liam Noble are jewels of the British jazz scene for vocal and keyboard creativity respectively. Noble (as he demonstrated last year on his Brubeck tribute) is a master at reinventing familiar material through improv, and Tobin has often shone a contemporary jazz sensibility on well-travelled songs, notably those of Leonard Cohen. Family bereavement took Tobin back to songs she sang as a girl, so this is a starkly personal reappraisal of Carole King's 1971 classic...

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