Here is a second brace of solo
Pass
tracks from the sessions that have already yielded
Songs for Ellen
. The ambience is ruminative and extremely intimate; the menu consists entirely of much-explored
standards
at mostly unrelieved slow tempos. Several notes are not cleanly struck, but the musical imagination that previously yielded several solo recordings is still very much in gear, albeit a very subtle gear. A general bit of advice: it is better to listen to this album in small doses (a few tracks at a time), try to mentally filter out the very closely recorded mechanical noises the fingers make on the guitar, and not expect anything startling to leap out at you. Better yet, try some of
' earlier solo albums (such as the
Virtuoso
series, also on
Pablo
) before embarking upon this. ~ Richard S. Ginell