Ian Shaw: The Abbey Road Sessions - review

(Splash Point)Ian Shaw's last album only featured his voice and his piano, but this one puts him in the Abbey Road Studios with a punchy group that includes fiery London post-bop saxist Zhenya Strigalev, drummer Gene Calderazzo, and veteran cool-school bassist Peter Ind. Shaw lets the band have its head from the start, as jagged sax lines wind around Miguel Gorodi's trumpet before Cole Porter's Get Out of Town cuts in. The famously Miles Davis-covered Human Nature gets a delicately wondering tre...

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