Mann/ Mehldau/ Porter/ Bostridge - Folly of DesireBrad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post #MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau's music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The stylistic

and with a sextet

The Peel Sessions helped with their exposure alongside extensive gigging (with UK Decay

In the course of the cycle he experiences loss and an aching loneliness interrupted by fleeting glimpses of hope

Two best friends strolling through a lively city scene as they converse immediately comes to mind

Jennifer Rene

Anyone seeking insights about blues

The album wraps up with Episodes

Like 2020's RSD SW mix of their Vienna album

These musicians from Asia have planned a program of three Russian composers

On 'Mutangila'

full of mammoth synths that carve out great chunks of sky and leave the listener riveted in mindstates awash in awe

Poh Lin Lee is a trauma therapist who lives with her family in this seemingly idyllic paradise