Rigmor Gustafsson & radio.string.quartet.vienna | CD review

(Act)Back in 2003, the Swedish singer Rigmor Gustafsson (pictured) impressed with her deft ability to subvert dinner-jazz cosiness with an understated power and flexibility on I Will Wait for You, but this strong programme is as much a showcase for the rhythmically stunning radio.string.quartet.vienna, which came to prominence doing John McLaughlin covers. The tracklist of swing and pop classics does imply the dinner-jazz factor, but Gustafsson and the band soon sweep that anxiety aside. The ope...

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