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Kate Williams Trio

Scenes and Dreams

33 Jazz128

For her third album, Dankworth-award-winning pianist Kate Williams has recorded eight originals and a couple of jazz classics (Ellington/Strayhorn's 'Day Dream' and 'Monk's Dream') with an alert, responsive rhythm section: bassist Jeremy Brown and drummer Tristan Mailliot.

Although loosely themed around both its overall and individual titles ('The Scenic Route' an appropriately meandering theme, 'Water's Edge' containing suitably 'lapping' piano sounds, etc.) the album is a richly varied programme.

Williams is an unshowy, subtle player, relying on displacements of rhythmic emphasis rather than dazzling runs to make her musical points, but her soloing is none the less cogent and powerful for that, and her themes, ranging from the overtly lyrical to the tastefully percussive, are immediately memorable, intensely melodic yet complex enough to provide absorbing bases for lively trio interaction.

Admirably unfussy, impeccably performed, this is a fine trio album from a pianist/composer who should be better known.

 

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