This is Yano’s 4th CD and this time we are treated to an uptempo swinging date at the well known New York jazz club, Smoke. She’s teamed up with Jimmy Cobb’s trio and they go all out from beginning to end. Yano loves to play fast and play hard. There’s no doubt she can blow up a storm but I’m looking forward to when she finally settles down and begins discovering a broader span of emotions in her playing. But this is still very fun music to listen to. She offers 7 standards and it’s almost surreal when you realize that Cobbs and pianist Richard Wyands are more than half a century older than Yano… These guys played these standards when they were still originals!
Jim's Jazz Notes 