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Noël Akchoté - Loving Highsmith

Paul Medrano, BestOfJazz.org

 

Loving Highsmith is a documentary about the thriller writer Patricia Highsmith, released in January 2022 and directed by Eva Vitija-Scheidegger. Noël Akchoté provided the soundtrack. There are two CDs for two duets, and each CD has the perfect partner: Disc #1 has Mary Halvorson, and Disc #2 has Bill Frisell. The result is as you can expect – excellent!

With a sound as clear, electric, serene, and fully controlled, these masters knit canvases like snapshots, images that accumulate and follow one another as naturally and poetically as a photo album. The music is so simply present that you can imagine turning around and seeing them playing right there, next to you, just for you.