Half Seas Over: Half Seas Over | CD review

(Brownswood)Pianist Elan Mehler has already made two albums for DJ Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label, accessible but cliche-avoiding sessions that sometimes resembled soundtracks to a romantic movie and which suggested classical music played with a spontaneous jazzy edge. But this collaboration with singer-songwriter Adam McBride-Smith (a folk and country-rock singer Mehler met in New York five years ago) is a very different venture, building a productive relationship between two genres of musi...

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