Today's playlist choice, pulled from the Spotify 10, is a piano trio number. And what an agile, imaginative treatment from pianist Michael Wolff of the Bill Carey and Carl Fischer 1940s classic 'You've Changed' this proves. Introduced to the canon by Harry James and his Orchestra, immortalised by Billie Holiday on Lady in Satin (Columbia, 1958), among the many recent versions of this scalding song of reproach addressed in disappointment to a lover, we warmed a decade ago to Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran's version found on Hagar's Song . It moved us. The Wolff track captures the song's essence in a different way. It lands a caressingly textured world away from how on Never on Sunday (Argo, 1961) Ramsey Lewis came to the song. In other words Wolff is not at all as under the influence of Erroll Garner as Lewis seemed. Drawn from Memoir, new on Sunnyside, the album finds the former musical director of the Arsenio Hall TV talk show with bassist Ben Allison and with drummer Allan Mednard. We loved Wolff's 2021 Live at Vitellos that featured Mark Isham. We look forward to listening to the rest of Memoir given how much 'You've Changed' resounds and captivates.
'You've forgotten the words I love you.'
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