music has been a strong influence on since his early years, and in the '90s, he paid especially close attention to the music of Argentina. A welcome addition to his already impressive catalog, pays homage to the late Argentine master (whose distinctive and very poetic brand of romanticism was considered quite daring and radical in Argentina). It would have been easy for an artist to allow his own personality to become obscured when saluting 's legacy, but the charismatic is too great an improviser to let that happen. Though his reverence for comes through loud and clear on these haunting classics, there's no mistaking the fact that this is very much an project. ~ Alex Henderson