Here’s a fresh musical voice in singer, pianist and composer Mavis Pan. She brings in woodwind masters Ted Nash and Geoff Burke along with Mark Wade/b and Jared Schonig/dr for a Baker’s Dozen of originals that are textured and as rich as a German Chocolate Cake. The clever harmonies swing on a modal “Chances Are Odd” with crying alto saxes around Wade on the solemn “Falling” Burke’s soprano adds exotic flavor to the lithe “Rising” with Schonig’s cadence bouncing under the flutes on “Black Sky”. Some Chiopinesque ivories sparkle on “Confessions” and a three part “Tarab Suite” mixes melancholic tenor and read with some funky grooves. Her Satie-esque “The Last Rose of Summer” teams soul with soprano with delicate voice , clarinet and piano closing out things on a poetic “You Must Believe In Love”. This is a band worth seeing. When’s the tour?
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