Fiona Apple- When the Pawn...
  Yeah the one with the pretentiously long title- a BAD
poem, IMO. But...I love the album. Beautiful. Fiona 
hovers around themes of bitter-sweet love. But the 
music, and some of the imagery, captures me. 

Bjork- Homogenic
  Startling at first. after about ten or fifteen 
minutes, it gets old. Bjork is unique, you gotta give 
her that. But she has a couple of tricks, it seems to 
me, and thats about it. Maybe it deserves more listens 
(if I can bear it) No hyperballad  here, at first 
listen. (I loved that one in two incarnations on two 
other albums)

Dave Douglas- A Thousand Evenings
  Lush, fun, unusual jazz, klezmer, tango and more.  - 
Trumpet, violin, accordian and bass. Possibilities 
revealed in this combination you wouldn't expect. One 
or two tracks are kind of predictable and lulling, but 
the others are dynamic and exciting beyond all 
expectation. I hope to inspire my daughter's violin 
playing with Mark Feldman's lush, gorgeous, inventive 
playing.

Gerry Mulligan Quartet- Pleyel Concerts, Vol 1
   A 1954 concert to an appreciative Paris audience, 
and rightly so. Mulligan grooved on that baritone of 
his, remarkably agile and funky for 1954, and there was
some great dialogue with Brookmeyer's trombone. Frank 
Isola was powerful and sensitive by turns, on drums, 
and  Red Mitchell on bass kept the pulse smooth and 
cool. Wonderfully upbeat jazz.

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