Subject: REV Karen Street CD (Finally A Begining)
From:
Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Jan 02 - 11:27 PM
The highly acclaimed accordion player Karen Street has recently released a new CD, here is what Jazz UK said about it in this months issue.
Accordionist Karen Street has provided all kinds of impressionistic undercurrentsto a variety of Brittish bands in recent years-Tim Garland groups as different as the folk-jazz band Lammas and the vigorous American/US postbop band he toured with last year, or the world-music singer Martha Lewis's ensemble-but this is her debut with her own song.Streets playing leaves most of the instrument's traditional luggage behind whilst retaining its evocative textures and faintly dolorous charm, and she's a fine improvisor who clearly has her head and her fingers around the mechanics of jazz as well.Street is assisted here by a shrewdly chosen pairing of Stan Sulzman's appropriately lyrical soprano saxophone and flute and the electric bass of Fred Theolonious Baker, the UK's own Steve Swallow.A promising solo career.....Finally beginning.
(copyright Jazz UK Jan 2002).
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