A Quiet Eye

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Personnel includes: June Tabor (vocals); Richard Bolton (cello); Mark Lockheart (clarinet, soprano & tenor saxophones); Richard Fox (tuba); Huw Warren (piano); Dudley Phillips (upright bass); Roy Dodds (percussion). Recorded at Wessex Studios, London, England. Long thought of as one of the most resolutely traditional vocalists on the British folk scene, June Tabor took many by surprise with 2000's A QUIET EYE. Instead of one of her usual small acoustic drummerless combos, Tabor is backed by the 13-piece Creative Jazz Orchestra, a progressive jazz/folk/world group along the lines of the Penguin CafT Orchestra. The combination of Tabor's stunning clarion voice and these layered, textured arrangements is intoxicating. The fact that A QUIET EYE has one of Tabor's finest song selections ever certainly helps as well. Along with a handful of traditional ballads and story songs, A QUIET EYE includes two Richard Thompson selections, "Pharoah" and the lovely "Waltzing's for Dreamers," and possibly the definitive interpretation of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," halfway between Roberta Flack's soul-jazz torch ballad and John Renbourn's more traditional folk version. There is not a single false step on this remarkable album, and it ranks up there with ABYSSINIANS and AIRS AND GRACES as one of Tabor's finest works.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)