Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett have taken their creative partnership to the next level with this album. Bennett's elegant playing and distinguished style fuse beautifully with the vocals of Britain's First Lady of Jazz. 'When Britain's foremost jazz singer meets the island's most imaginative composer, the outcome is always stellar.' Jazz times
'...Martin, whose renditions...revealed the heart of a saloon torch beating inside the chipper jazz playmate.' The New York Times
'The result is a kind of perfection...' The Wall Street Journal
AKD 359 (Linn Records)
