TAKASE,AKI - St.Louis Blues (Sealed) (CD)

Among the multitude of good jazz and improvising pianists, Aki Takase is one of the best, because she is able to combine tradition with modernity, to bring in her soul and at the same time play incredibly precise. Standards are quoted - and these flow into her own compositions and free improvisation. Fred Frith and Paul Lovens as sensitive accompanists more in the background. Rudy Mahall and Nils Wogram as excellent musicians of the German jazz scene, to whom one can only wish many such productions and concerts.