Longing
Jazzbird Records, 2013ALBUM DETAILS
Scene & Heard-Best of Boston Music 2014
Boston Globe Arts Section, December 19, 2014
The crystalline glow of Kris Adams’s singing, along with her technical assurance and emotional commitment, make this a standout vocal album, but the arrangements by her Berklee colleague Greg Hopkins put it over the top. Hopkins worked with Adams on seven of the 11 tracks, sometimes with as many as 10 pieces, including cello. The varied material ranges from Joni Mitchell’s “The Dawntreader” and Michel Legrand’s “Once Upon a Summertime” to Mary Lou Williams’s “What’s Your Story Morning Glory?,” a couple of pieces by the British singer Norma Winstone (including the title track), and Adams’s own lyric setting of Steve Swallow’s “Wrong Together.”
Jon Garelick
The Players
Tim Ray, piano
Paul Del Nero, acoustic bass
Fernando Huergo, electric bass
Mark Walker, drums
Bertram Lehmann, percussion
Greg Hopkins, trumpet
Shannon LeClaire, alto sax/clarinet
Rick DiMuzio, tenor sax/clarinet
Ben Whiting, baritone sax/bass clarinet
Fernando Brandao, flute
Bob Patton, flute
Eric Hofbauer, guitar
Eugene Friesen, cello
THE SONGS
1. The Glide
2. The Dawntreader
3. Wrong Together
4. When You Smile
5. All of You
6. Once Upon a Summertime
7. Longing
8. What’s Your Story Morning Glory?
9. Pulled Pork
10. Voce e Eu
11. You and Me Love
