One big jazz trend this year is the new straightahead arriving in quantity from labels, none of them new, such as Posi-Tone, Cellar Live and Storyville bolstering other tried and tested labels in this area such as HighNote, Smoke Sessions, Mack Avenue and to a lesser-extent April Records. US pianist Caili O'Doherty is certainly a mainstreamer who can veer in and out of being modernistic but not selfconsciously arty although there is a lot of art to what O'Doherty does. Saxophonist Nicole Glover is Joshua Redman-like, another big plus factor here as an add-on to an ostensible trio record. The feel-goodness circulates and transmits. Relative newcomers bassist Tamir Shmerling and drummer Cory Cox complete the line-up. 'Runaway' with Glover works on every level. Forget the inanities of Instagram O'Doherty as a jazz influencer keeps it real but it's in the playing here and not some sort of concocted image factory elsewhere where the real interest lies.
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