It isn’t often a disc by a jazz pianist lands on my desk. In fact, I can’t recall the last time. Well, yes, I can. Mary Louise Knutson’s In the Bubble (at that I had to seek her out). Which is odd in the Twin Cities, where there’s great music all over the place and plenty jazz vocalists enjoy high profiles. Alas, not so instrumentalists. Hopefully Knutson’s newly released In the Bubble, following the well received Call Me When You Get There, can help change that. It would do music lovers a favor, since she has a subtle way of tickling the ivories that, in a word, tantalizes.
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