Diana Torto/John Taylor/Anders Jormin: Triangoli | CD review

(Astarte)Kenny Wheeler's Nineteen Plus One album with Italy's Colours Orchestra last year woke me up to the emergence of Italian singer Diana Torto – a performer with the accuracy, tonal purity and improvisational flexibility of the UK's Norma Winstone (clearly a major influence). Winstone's sweepingly skilful former piano partner John Taylor, one of the world's great jazz keyboardists, displays a comparable sensitivity to Torto's talents in this trio, as does the bassist Anders Jormin. Q...

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