Chamber Music Society among Jazzwise's Albums of the Year

Monday November 29, 2010

from jazzwisemagazine.com

The expression “What goes around… comes around” might not have been in the lexicon of 18th century poet William Blake but the sentiment certainly applies with the application of his work on Chamber Music Society. Imbued with Blake’s dissentient spirit from the get-go with ‘Little Fly’, the 26-year-old Esperanza Spalding originally from Portland in Oregon uses the album to not just present her gifts as an acoustic bassist which word has got round about for some time especially since last year’s Folk Art Us5 album with Joe Lovano, she also sings in a breezily confident way, scatting resourcefully on ‘Knowledge of Good And Evil’ while luxuriating in Gil Goldstein’s wonderfully giving string arrangements that bring out the lustre and potential of the imaginative settings of Blake. Later covering other material especially the Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington evergreen song associated with Nina Simone and David Bowie, ‘Wild Is The Wind’, her languid style sits beautifully against Leo Genovese’s curling melodica lines and the approaching presence of a tango rhythm.

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