3X J(A)ZZ! | LIA PALE & MATHIAS RÜEGG - THE BRAHMS SONG BOOK (AT/NL)

Singer Lia Pale and pianist/arranger mathias rüegg present their reading of 15 Brahms songs as the keystone of a trilogy where the classical model and the interpretation of a long-experienced jazz tradition shine through one another with the same iridescent and irritating light. Even with all the beautiful solos of Joris Roelofs, Ingrid Oberkanins and Johannes Strasser, they are no ‘jazzed-up songs’, but witty arrangements close to the originals, yet at a smart distance from them. Which means that the originals in Pale’s even, finely vibrating voice never tip over into the sentimental.