Title: A bit too much rubato
Product review: Some songs on this album are fresh exposures to Hathaway's singing and soloing ability. "Valdez in the Country" is the centerpiece of the whole album, and exceeds the studio version.Other songs ("Someday We'll All Be Free") are sung with way too much rubato and are not easy to follow as a result. Of course, the degree of the rubato is not as bad as, say, Shirly Horne (one wonders if she is going to fall asleep before she gets to the next chord), but there is diminshment just the same.
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