Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow: Andando el Tiempo review – captivating, succinct jazz

(ECM)The incomparable American jazz composer Carla Bley is 80 on 11 May, and this long-running trio, with bass guitarist Steve Swallow and British saxophonist Andy Sheppard, will celebrate in New York and then tour Europe, visiting London’s Ronnie Scott’s on 17 July. The five new pieces here include three parts of the yearning yet congenial suite of the title, written in observation of a friend’s struggle with addiction. A slow theme ascends against glimpses of a tango, with...

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