Album: Simon Nabatov, Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols (Leo)
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Your support makes all the difference.A missing link between Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, Harlem pianist Nichols wrote odd, utterly distinctive music that the jazz trad has never assimilated.
Russian virtuoso Nabatov – who came to NYC to study in 1979 – plays eight of Nichols' tunes, with the avowed aim of surprising himself by not pre-determining where the openings are headed. The result is marvellously jangly, madly syncopated vamping where the bones of the originals show through. Phil Johnson
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