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On
's previous album, 2004's
, the legendary vocalist teamed up with a given instrumentalist on each track. She must have liked the formula, because she's done it again on
. Here the oft-honored
singer leaves room in each number -- save for the title track, a
poem set to music and arranged by
-- for a different soloist, bringing in such heavyweights as
on flute, saxists
,
(who appears to be summoning
on the opening number,
'
),
and
, pianist
, and steel pans player
, among others. Working with configurations ranging from classic
(
's
) to trio-plus-guest-soloist (
applies her seasoned but still flexible pipes to material both old and new, straddling the fence between
/
and the more demanding
of her earlier career. Heavy on the
, and confined nearly exclusively to love songs,
finds
right where she ought to be nearly half a century into her recording career. ~ Jeff Tamarkin