Following the same pattern as Soley this is great from Martiniquan-French singer-pianist/keyboardist Grégory Privat whose fine vocals dipping into falsetto inject a Richard Bona-like life and vitality to the instrumentals although he has a higher range to his voice, the album shaped around Privat with bassist Chris Jennings and drummer Tilo Bertholo. The songs are very affecting, warm and emotional, the jazz lines mixing well with Creole, pop and electronic music directions. I wasn't expecting to be as taken by the songs. The whole album works as crossover as well as containing enough intimations of jazz to please followers of this fine player who may know his work from a more formal but very different chamber-jazz setting with Lars Danielsson.
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