Judith Berkson: Oylam | CD review

(ECM)It might be 40 years old now, but Germany's ECM label still keeps turning up the kind of mavericks the mainstream industry mostly shrugs perplexedly at. Solo singer/keyboardist Berkson is an absorbing one-off – touching on Jewish liturgical music (she's also a cantor), standards jazz tempered by Schoenbergian melody, Debussy, Charles Ives and the microtonalism she learned at the New England Conservatory with the late Joe Maneri. Though the two standards (a faintly sinister All of You, and...

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