Intimacy and musical quips for those who have shown the way:
Pianist Pablo Held takes a bow and pays tribute to earlier generations—his own parents, as well as such musicians as Wayne Shorter and Frederico Mompou—by playing music with its own charm and tongue-in-cheek beauty. His trio is joined by two horns and a guitarist; it all results in a remarkable blossoming of luxuriant tonal colors.
