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If Carole King and Diana Krall had a lovechild it would be Jane Ford’s 2 Days in February.
Part pop, part smoky jazz, this album takes the perfectly-crafted pop song to a new level. Jane Ford returns to her influences, 1970’s singer/songwriter Top 40, but here it’s played as though smushed into a pack of Gitanes in a Paris jazz bar. The eight song equivalent of a night on the town with a friend who makes you drink too much and confess all your inner secrets. But somehow you feel better for it in the morning. |
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From the opening strains of the first song “Sweet and Slow,” you know you’ve found something that reminds you of home. Labelled as “soulful pop” when it first came out, Jane Ford mixes up some straight-ahead pop tunes with a little heartfelt blues, and some very swingy jazz, where she uses her piano like a second voice, telling the story beneath the story. The piano equivalent of Wonder Woman’s lasso - just when you’re dazzled by the twirling, you suddenly discover she’s roped you right in. This the kind of album that you’ll want to play over and over. With an elegant simplicity that makes it timeless.
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