(Review by
Lance).
I've always had an affinity with jazz violin,
perhaps it was because my first efforts at making music were on a cut price
Strad or, more likely, it was when I first heard Stephane Grappelli (or
Grappelly as he called himself then). To this day I love the gypsy jazz sound
as personified by local exponent Emma Fisk. However, I also love more modern
sounds and, somehow, Jean-Luc Ponty never quite cut it for me.
Enter Tomoko Omura, Berklee graduate, the first
violinist to receive the prestigious Roy Haynes Award and, now, with two
previous albums to her name, this latest release.