Morrison continues to do exactly what he's done for the past couple
of decades, release yet another new album, alternating between blues,
jazz and R'n'B, with lots of '50's and '60's covers with a few originals
thrown in as well. This one feels different though, and there's a buzz
about it too. Spending a few hours in a Halifax record store last week,
the thing actually sold out, and a couple of people came in specifically
looking for it. It could just be the eye-catching cover, but it's also a
cut above the usual.
I think it has to do with
the small jazz combo form he uses on this release, just four other
players plus his own harp and sax. It includes one of jazz music's
current lights, organ player Joey DeFrancesco, and the last time he
teamed up with Van, the album You're Driving Me Crazy, from this past
spring, you could feel the magic beginning. For that album, Morrison
chose to rework some of his own back catalog, but this time he had six
new originals, including the moody title cut, and that seems to have
inspired the proceedings further. These aren't just throwaway blues
lyrics either. Morrison gets into the mystic with Spirit Will Provide,
and goes dark with 5 AM Greenwich Mean Time.
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