Julie Driscoll - Sunset Glow

Julie Driscoll's first solo album in five years came as a major shock to anybody who remembered her only for her brief stint of pop-shaped glory at the end of the 1960s. Accompanied by a distinctly jazz-lite combo led by husband Keith Tippett, Driscoll only occasionally dips towards old territory, via the shimmering "Mind of Child" and the beautifully bluesy "Oceans and Sky." Elsewhere, the likes of "Lilies" and the title track see her stretching into deeply experimental/jazz fields, with her accompanists -- most notably the horn section of Mark Charig, Elton Dean and Nick Evans -- driving many of the performances into the same kind of left-field territory as the earliest Robert Wyatt albums. Read More