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Lynne Arriale Trio
When You Listen, Digital Music Productions, CD-511, 1995 (63:13)
Deeply-felt piano brilliance
Adjectives sound all too weak in trying to convey the essence of jazz
pianist Lynne Arriale. She has an exquisite sense of touch which makes her
sound like no one I've heard before. A subtle brilliance is especially evident
when she's playing gentle ballads such as the title track and "In the
Wee Small Hours of the Morning." Somewhat paradoxically, Arriale's
playing is both pensive and emotional whether she's performing an original
composition or Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean." Arriale's
fingers adroitly deliver what she certainly must passionately feel in her
heart and soul. On "Waiting & Watching," my favorite, her
playing is especially succinct and crisp. This is just the second recording
for the talented performer-composer-arranger, but she's about to go back
to the recording studio. The more I listen to When You Listen, the more
I hear, and perhaps this is what Arriale intended when choosing the title
for her CD. Because when you listen, especially on successive listenings,
you'll really begin to hear the depth and emotional clarity Arriale delivers.
Give it a listen yourself. - Mark Craemer
production notes & song titles
Lynne Arriale, piano; Drew Gress, bass; Steve Davis, drums.
Produced by Lynne Arriale and Tom Jung; recorded by Tom Jung.
How Deep Is the Ocean | My Shining Hour | Waiting & Watching |
Bess, You Is My Woman Now | You and the Night and the Music |
Slinky | Lonely Woman | Seven Steps to Heaven | When You
Listen | I Love a Calypso | In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
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