Reviewed by Eric Saeger
Seattle-based jazz chick Coss is making waves in New York, based not just on her Presidential Scholorship to William Paterson University but for her vice-like grip on new-jack bebop. Everything is in place on her all-original debut – agreeable moods, impeccable engineering – making this an instant classic for oldbies and newbies alike. I’m in the Mood For Love feel-alike Wandering One kicks off the record, which next moves into unfettered, Rhodes-supported torch with Lately, then weary cha-cha at A New Time, at which point Coss appropriately trades her adventurous sax for flute. More slowbie torch at Enlightenment spotlights gliding sax lines, and at this point it becomes apparent that this is makeout stuff, further driven home by the moderately edgy but never obtrusive modal lines of The Slow Ascent and the puffy, fugue-inducing I Think So.
Grade: B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k82_TqLLVY
[Drunken idiots try to talk louder than the music]
