Emily Saunders: Cotton Skies – review

(F-ire) The word is out about Emily Saunders, the young Trinity College-trained singer with a devotion to Brazilian grooves whose musicality, poise and ingenuity have already taken her out of the league of supper-club samba-whisperers. Saunders is the real deal, and comparisons with Gretchen Parlato aren't out of place. Six of these dreamily atmospheric songs are originals, and the rest come from giants of Latin-jazz such as Egberto Gismonti, Airto Moreira and Hermeto Pascoal. Saunders's instr...

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