Dave Gelly 

Anita Wardell: The Road – review

Pacy and graceful, Anita Wardell's delightful album makes it all look so easy, says Dave Gelly
  
  


The thing about Anita Wardell is that she makes tricky stuff sound not just easy but natural. There are moments here, on well-known standards such as You're My Thrill and Without a Song, that could be harmonic and rhythmic minefields, but she sings them all with an airy grace. Her mutual understanding with Robin Aspland, that most lucid and inventive of pianists, is a constant delight. And when it comes to scat singing, for which she is famous, if this breakneck version of Frevo Em Maceio doesn't put a spark into your day, nothing will.

 

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