Opening Night: A pianist takes a jazzy stroll down Broadway
On Pure Imagination (Impulse!) jazz pianist Eric Reed takes a sunny stroll down Broadway to where it intersects Memory Lane. Reed, a former member of Wynton Marsalis' septet, is only 27 years old, but his new album could easily have been titled Pure Nostalgia: the songs he covers in this collection of Broadway show tunes are classic numbers, including Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music, 1973), Hello, Young Lovers (The King and I, 1951) and My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess, 1935).
Despite the fact that all the tunes on Pure Imagination are decades old, these renditions don't...
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