Pianist and composer Haeun Joo creates relaxed and impressionistic moods with a post bop team of Matt Holman/tp-fh, Doug Weiss/b and Ronen Itzik/dr with her 8 originals. Her piano style gives hints of Mehldau, Evans and Hancock, dancing fluidly around the guided cymbals of the ESP-ish “86” and soft tones of Holman’s horn melding with Joo’s voice on the gentle “We Will Find”. She “oohs” around Weiss’s bass solo on the reflective “John” and builds up with Holman on the gentle canter of “In The Rain”. Most successful is the elegiac “Question” that has gorgeous brass and piano, and the fragranct “A Window In the Dark” featuring Weiss’ bass stating the melody. Sublime sounds.
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