There are many who claim this 1977 live date doesn't (and could never) really work, but screw them. Williams, the early bop pianist whose work had long reflected a gospel influence that allowed her '70s LP (on her own Mary label) to sound contemporary, plays spirituals her way. Taylor, the all-too-human god of free jazz, plays spirituals his way. Use your ears and you'll hear two very complete histories of jazz colliding simultaneously. Let your ear wander between the two and you'll hear a generous (if slightly pedagogical) Democracy of the Ear that band-leaders such as Wynton Marsalis pitifully lack. --D. Strauss
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Jazz Music:
- Gospel Favourites [Import]
- Gradie Stone Live [Live]
- Greatest Hits
- Inside Out
- Introducing Jonathan Butler
- Is It Sinatra?
- Isolation
- Jazz Meets the Bossa Nova [Import] [Limited Edition]
- Jazzaplenty
- Just Duet
Jazz Music
Tales From the Brothers Gibb [Box set]
Verdi: Requiem Mass / Rossini: Stabat Mater
Whistle Down the Wind (Songs From) [Import] [Soundtrack]
Vol. 1-Original Seeds [Import]
Vaughan Williams, Delius: Orchestral Works
Until [Original recording remastered] [Import]