整张专辑感觉很好，喜欢的手风琴，在Double Bass的低音下显得有点惨淡，也有
些拉丁味，难道是手风琴的错觉......对整张碟除了音乐几乎一无所知，只是单
纯的觉得，他们在一起真好啊（这样说真傻......）。那......到底是怎样就下
了呢，说不清了，不过心想，如果有一架在伴奏的手风琴该多好啊，封底的女人
的脸也能让人想起一些快的事情，说不上来是什么，只是觉得那样笑就很好了。
于是，一切就像估计的那样。琴声转过的时候，就像有什么踏在布易若斯艾利斯
的小石子路上一样，是女人的高跟鞋吧。









Myriam Alter’s latest album is attractive; like radiant sunshine through
a winter window, it pulls you gently closer with nuance and charm,  then
seduces with intelligence, style, and grace.  Following the blueprint of
her earlier albums, Alter has once again written all of the compositions
here.  Instead of playing on the album herself,  she chose to be content
with composing and left the realization of the pieces in the very capable
hands of others.The album begins with the dark whispers of Dino Saluzzi’s
bandoneon followed by the sensitive  interplay of the  rest of the band.
The combination of instruments is exquisite; the bandoneon and clarinet
both  possess  dark  wooden voices  that ruminate  upon each  theme with
singularity, while the piano and acoustic bass cast light and dark asides
into a harmony of shadows. Joey Baron plays his drums with such feeling
and  vulnerability  on these  songs;  he shapes  the music like a great
dancer that charges the air around them.

Alter’s compositions carry a sense of Andalusian memories, Tango Nuevo,
and modern jazz that brings to mind an overall Sephardic feel to the songs.
Flowing clarinet melodies bump against hints of bandoneon tango fused with
surging jazz explorations on bass and drums, and everywhere is the warmth
of sunlight and soft sands.

If is Alter’s fourth album to date, and like her Silent Walk album and the
beautiful Alter Ego she pursues her muse in a most compelling way. In her
music one can forget about form and the shape of solos—instead, explore
the feelings, memories, and lost moments of your life that this music
conjures. "I Think of You" is traveling music for when you have nowhere
left to go, but still you move on through the deserts of your heart and
mind, content in the simple sensation of putting one sandal in front of the other.

Her compositions have an ungraspable quality that is terribly seducing.
Singing melodies dancing in a dusty road are suddenly brushed gently away
and replaced with chiaroscuro shadows from the side of the road, then another
singing melody appears from the depths and joins the shadows in an evolving dance of life.

With this recording Ms. Alter continues to delve into the riches of her spirit.
She is an important voice in the world of modern jazz—she is exploring new
territory, and that should be of interest to anyone traveling the modern road of jazz composition.

IF features compositions by jazz pianist Myriam Alter.

Personnel: Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon);
John Ruocco (clarinet);
Kenny Werner (piano);
Greg Cohen (bass); Joey Baron (drums).

                                                      01 Waking Up
                                                      02 Home
                                                      03 If
                                                      04 I Think Of You
                                                      05 It’s All There
                                                      06 Children Play
                                                      07 Intrigant Melody, An
                                                      08 Moving Somewhere
                                                      09 You Should Stay
                                                      10 Where You Belong